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Digital madness : how social media is driving our mental health crisis-and how to restore our sanity / by Kardaras, Nicholas,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids: Revolutionary research that reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates--and offers a way out. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of researchers 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. For them, the digital world is a bubble of content you're meant to "like" or "dislike." Two choices might be considered easy, but just how detrimental is this binary thinking to mental health? From body image to politics to personal relationships to decisions, the world doesn't exist in an "up or down," "black or white," "good or bad" dynamic, and social media shouldn't either. Digital Madness explores how technology promotes sedentary isolation, polarization, rewards extremes on both sides, and has spawned a mental health and suicide pandemic from which enormous corporations profit. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking, concentration, and other beneficial habits of mind. 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"--
Subjects: Information technology; Social media; Well-being.; Information technology;
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Girl gone viral : a novel / by Rai, Alisha,author.;
"In Alisha Rai's second novel in her Modern Love series, a reclusive investor goes viral, shoving her into the world's spotlight--and into the arms of the bodyguard she's been pining for."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Social media; Microblogs; Man-woman relationships; Women capitalists and financiers; Bodyguards;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My not so perfect life : a novel / by Kinsella, Sophie,author.;
Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle--from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she's trying to negotiate. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud. Then, just as she's finding her feet--not to mention a possible new romance--the worst happens. Demeter fires Katie. Shattered but determined to stay positive, Katie retreats to her family's farm in Somerset to help them set up a vacation business. London has never seemed so far away--until Demeter unexpectedly turns up as a guest. Secrets are spilled and relationships rejiggered, and as the stakes for Katie's future get higher, she must question her own assumptions about what makes for a truly meaningful life.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Interpersonal relations; Social media; Secrets; Employees; Supervisors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The hype machine : how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health - and how we must adapt / by Aral, Sinan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions with each other through social media. It is paramount, MIT social media expert Sinan Aral says, that we recognize the outsized impact social media has on our culture, our democracy, and our lives in order to steer today's social technology toward good, while avoiding the ways it can pull us apart. Otherwise, we could fall victim to what Aral calls "The Hype Machine." As a senior researcher of the longest-running study of fake news ever conducted, Aral found that lies spread online farther and faster than the truth--a harrowing conclusion that was featured on the cover of Science magazine. Among the questions Aral explores following twenty years of field research: Did Russian interference change the 2016 election? And how is it affecting the vote in 2020? Why does fake news travel faster than the truth online? How do social ratings and automated sharing determine which products succeed and fail? How does social media affect our kids? First, Aral links alarming data and statistics to three accelerating social media shifts: hyper-socialization, personalized mass persuasion, and the tyranny of trends. Next, he grapples with the consequences of the Hype Machine for elections, businesses, dating, and health. Finally, he maps out strategies for navigating the Hype Machine, offering his singular guidance for managing social media to fulfill its promise going forward. Rarely has a book so directly wrestled with the secret forces that drive the news cycle every day"--
Subjects: Information society.; Common fallacies.; Propaganda.; Social interaction.; Social media;
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Ingrid goes west [videorecording] / by Jackson, OShea,Jr.,1991-actor.; Olsen, Elizabeth,1989-actor.; Plaza, Aubrey,1984-producer,actor.; Spicer, Matt,screenwriter,film director.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, Billy Magnussen.An unhinged social media stalker (Aubrey Plaza) moves to LA and insinuates herself into the life of an Instagram star (Elizabeth Olsen).Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Female friendship; Social media; Socialites;
For private home use only.
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Dear dickhead / by Despentes, Virginie,1969-author.; Wynne, Frank,translator.; translation of:Despentes, Virginie,1969-Cher connard.English.;
"An epistolary novel about sex, addiction, and #MeToo"--
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Novels.; Actresses; Authors; Correspondence; Electronic mail messages; Man-woman relationships; Social media;
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Allow me to introduce myself / by Nwabineli, Onyi,author.;
After growing up with her life being chronicled and monetized by her entrepreneurial step-mother, Anuri escapes as a young adult but vows to fight the cycle of abuse and save her younger sister from a similar fate.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Internet personalities; Racially mixed families; Sisters; Social media; Stepmothers;
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Influence / by Shepard, Sara,1977-; Buckingham, Lilia.;
After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?LSC
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Internet personalities; Social media; Fame; Murder;
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Anon pls. : a novel / by DeuxMoi,author.; Goodman, Jessica,1990-author.;
"From the creator of @Deuxmoi, the popular--and infamous--celebrity gossip Instagram, comes a fun and charming debut novel about a stylist assistant whose drunken decision to turn her Instagram into a celeb gossip account turns her life completely upside down"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Instagram (Electronic resource); Celebrities; Fame; Gossip in mass media; Image consultants; Social media;
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Representation in media / by Dakers, Diane.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index."Do you see people who look and talk like you in media? Are the people who have the most influence on you your age, gender, ethnicity, or even body type? How do we understand ourselves if we don't see ourselves represented in the world? Representation in Media takes a careful look at how point of view is crafted to represent the views and ideologies of just a portion of the population, and why lack of diversity in media should matter to us all"--Provided by publisher.Guided reading: Z.LSC
Subjects: Minorities in mass media; Difference (Psychology) in mass media; Multiculturalism in mass media; Mass media; Mass media;
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