Digital Madness
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Digital Madness
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Author : Nicholas Kardaras
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Digital Madness written by Nicholas Kardaras and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Psychology categories.
From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices are driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates—and offers a way out. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it “digital heroin”. Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults and looks at the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media. In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young people’s mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, our young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses and suicide. What’s driving this mental health epidemic? Our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion and addictive dependency, while also acting as a toxic "digital social contagion”, spreading a variety of psychiatric disorders. The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain's architecture into inherently pathological and reactive "black and white" thinking—toxic for politics and society, but also symptomatic of several mental disorders. Digital Madness also examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle: sedentary, screen-staring, addicted, depressed, isolated and empty—all in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining and monetization. But there is a solution. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose in people’s lives. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching for ways to restore our young people’s mental and physical health.
Elevator To Hell
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Author : Matthew Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Black and Blue Publishing
Release Date : 2012-09
Elevator To Hell written by Matthew Benjamin and has been published by Black and Blue Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with Fiction categories.
Perhaps crime doesn't pay. But doing nothing doesn't either. Still, does any degree of abuse or mistreatment warrant fratricide-killing one's own brother? Or, more precisely, half-brother? And when does old fashioned greed take over and disguise itself as simple ambition or self-preservation? Find out. Discover how the rock and roll bastard from Detroit, Nic Reilly, fights his way to the top of the record business and then loses everything, including himself-with most of it taking place during the implosion years of the file-sharing revolution as the music industry melts to the ground.
Do The Movies Have A Future
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Author : David Denby
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012
Do The Movies Have A Future written by David Denby and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
A selection of essays by a prestigious New Yorker film critic examines the art, business and future of America's troubled movie industry, exploring topics ranging from "fandom" and the work of critics James Agee and Pauline Kael while evaluating how the global marketplace is threatening film with increasing demands for spectacle and digitalization.
Perfecting Sound Forever
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Author : Greg Milner
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Perfecting Sound Forever written by Greg Milner and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Music categories.
From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music, introducing us to the innovators, musicians and producers who have affected the way we hear our favourite songs, from Thomas Edison to Phil Spector. Exploring the balance that recordings strike between the real and the represented, Greg Milner asks the questions which have divided sound recorders for the past century: should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? What does the perfect record sound like? The answers he uncovers will change the way we think about music.
24 Hours Without My Smartphone
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Author : R Muroli
language : en
Publisher: eClicQ Publications
Release Date : 2025-04-27
24 Hours Without My Smartphone written by R Muroli and has been published by eClicQ Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-27 with Social Science categories.
📵 No phone. No apps. No sanity. What happens when a screen-obsessed millennial ditches their smartphone for 24 hours? Pure chaos. This hilarious e-book is part diary, part breakdown, part spiritual awakening. From confusing the TV remote with a phone to asking actual humans for directions—this experiment is equal parts cringe and comedy. 🔥 Inside the madness: ✅ Toilet-time boredom and bathroom philosophy ✅ The return of eye contact and deep thoughts ✅ A shocking encounter with… nature ✅ Why maps are evil ✅ How to survive an existential crisis by talking to your fridge 💡 If Black Mirror had a comedy episode, it would look like this book. 📥 Download now and enjoy 24 hours of secondhand digital detox panic!
Introducing Religion
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Author : Robert S. Ellwood
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-08-22
Introducing Religion written by Robert S. Ellwood and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-22 with Religion categories.
Introducing Religion examines the different ways of looking at religion in the twenty-first century. Providing a broad overview to the discipline of religious studies, this new edition continues to introduce students to engaging and contemporary topics such as: sociology of religion psychology of religion history of religion religion and art religious ethics popular religion religion and violence Thoroughly updated throughout, this sixth edition includes new coverage of current debates and hot topics in the field, such as concerns about "essentialism" in religion, the importance of categorization, and the role of psychology in religious experience. This textbook is fundamental reading for students approaching this subject area for the first time.
Artificial Intelligence
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Author : Jason C. Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-06-28
Artificial Intelligence written by Jason C. Robinson and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-28 with Science categories.
This thought-provoking book explores the most promising and threatening technology imaginable—artificial intelligence (AI) or thinking-machines. Following the shocking release of generative AI (ChatGPT) in 2022, questions about the future of humanity and our role as apex minds have exploded with great urgency. The book contributes uniquely to AI conversations in three main ways. First, it broaches questions often ignored by AI developers and tech-enthusiasts, including corporate responsibility and the role technology plays in the widespread manipulation of cultures for profit and power. Second, it asks big and unanswered questions about the nature of thinking, consciousness, morality, purpose, and the good life, as a means of laying the foundation needed to create a better AI. Third, by framing AI evolution in three unique stages of development—Oz, Feallan, and Adouren—it takes readers far beyond the present horizon of large language models. While being accessible to a wide audience, this book offers a thought-provoking examination of the most pressing questions and risks of AI.
Politicizing Digital Space
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Author : Trevor Garrison Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Politicizing Digital Space written by Trevor Garrison Smith and has been published by University of Westminster Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with Political Science categories.
The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics.
Unplugged Revolution
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Author : Deepak S. Mote
language : en
Publisher: Deepak S. Mote
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Unplugged Revolution written by Deepak S. Mote and has been published by Deepak S. Mote this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Health & Fitness categories.
In today's hyperconnected world, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives, shaping our relationships, perceptions, and even our sense of self. However, as we find ourselves constantly tethered to screens, mindlessly scrolling through news feeds, and comparing our lives to carefully curated online personas, we often lose sight of what truly matters. "Unplug" sheds light on the hidden consequences of excessive social media use, from the erosion of authentic connections to the detrimental effects on mental health and overall well-being.
Neon Eden
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Author : Jerry Ezra
language : en
Publisher: Field Books
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Neon Eden written by Jerry Ezra and has been published by Field Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The air in Eden hummed with a constant energy, a symphony of data streams and electronic pulses that vibrated against the skin. The city, a sprawling labyrinth of neon-soaked towers and sleek chrome structures, pulsed with a vibrant, artificial life. It was a utopia of sorts, built on the promise of technological advancement, where cybernetic enhancements were the norm and human limitations seemed a distant memory. Yet, for those who chose to resist the allure of modification, for those who clung to the organic, the human, Eden presented a starkly different reality. The Naturals, as they were known, lived on the fringes of this technologically advanced world, their existence a constant reminder of the gap that separated them from the Technos. They were the forgotten ones, the dissenters, the reminders of what was lost in the pursuit of progress. Detective Sam Wolfe was a Natural in a world increasingly hostile to his kind. He was a man who had seen the darkness that lurked beneath the city's shiny exterior, the secrets that the Techno elite desperately tried to conceal. He had chosen to fight for justice, to protect the innocent, even when it meant navigating a world that often shunned him. When a string of bizarre murders began to target the city's elite Technos, Sam found himself thrust into a chilling investigation that would lead him down a rabbit hole of secrets, conspiracies, and the unsettling truth behind the alluring "Euphoria" implants. These devices, promising eternal bliss, carried a terrifying side effect—lethal brain overload. As Sam delved deeper, uncovering a network of power and corruption that extended far beyond the city's neon-lit streets, he realized that the forces guarding this utopia would stop at nothing to protect their vision. Faced with a choice between pursuing justice and safeguarding his own survival, Sam found himself on a path that would test the limits of his humanity and challenge his very definition of right and wrong. This is the story of a city built on the promise of progress, but ultimately, a story about the human condition—the struggle for identity, the search for truth, and the fight for a better tomorrow, even in the face of overwhelming odds.