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Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new technologies.



Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: How and Why
1. The Shift
2. Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference
3. The Pull
4. The Power of Sound: History and Biology
5. The Biological Science — What's Really Going on in Our Brains?
6. Boxed In — Anxiety in the Masses
7. From Digital Natives to i-Kids
8. The Story of Alpha
9. The Narrowing of Minds

Part 2: Process and Development
10. Of Systems and Process
11. Back to Biology: Epigenetics and Vestibular Regulation
12. From i-Kids to i-Brains
13. Learning, Play, and Parenting— Conflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World
14. Socialization — Child's Play

Part 3: Education, Games, Power, and Politics
15. The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral
16. Of Games and Gaming
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly— Esports and the Business of Gaming
18. Beyond Illusions — Spatial Planning, Arbitrary Learning, and Geolocation Skills
19. Breaking the Trance
20. i-Tech and Healthcare — To Care or i-Care

Part 4: Trust, Governance, and the Attention Ecconomy
21. i-Trust and i-Privacy— Social, Economic, and Political Manipulation
22. Governance Part One — Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy
23. Governance Part Two — Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection
24. The Attention Economy
25. Governance and Safety — Electromagnetic Explorations

Part 5: The Interpersonal
26. Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship
27. Sex and Sexuality Part A — Adult Play
28. Sex and Sexuality Part B — Brain Wiring and the Death of Intimacy
29. Sex and Sexuality Part C — From Children to Elders, Communication, and Lifestyle Solutions
30. Benefactors of Change
31. i-Addiction and i-Life— The Beginnings of a New World
32. The Tipping Point
33. Our Future Our Selves

Epilogue: So What to Do?

Notes
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers

iMinds 2nd edition

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    Publisher: New Society Publishers
    Publication Date: 07/05/2019
    ISBN13: 9780865719019, 978-0865719019
    ISBN10: 0865719012
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    Human–computer interaction Popular medicine and health Psychology

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new technologies.



    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Part 1: How and Why
    1. The Shift
    2. Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference
    3. The Pull
    4. The Power of Sound: History and Biology
    5. The Biological Science — What's Really Going on in Our Brains?
    6. Boxed In — Anxiety in the Masses
    7. From Digital Natives to i-Kids
    8. The Story of Alpha
    9. The Narrowing of Minds

    Part 2: Process and Development
    10. Of Systems and Process
    11. Back to Biology: Epigenetics and Vestibular Regulation
    12. From i-Kids to i-Brains
    13. Learning, Play, and Parenting— Conflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World
    14. Socialization — Child's Play

    Part 3: Education, Games, Power, and Politics
    15. The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral
    16. Of Games and Gaming
    17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly— Esports and the Business of Gaming
    18. Beyond Illusions — Spatial Planning, Arbitrary Learning, and Geolocation Skills
    19. Breaking the Trance
    20. i-Tech and Healthcare — To Care or i-Care

    Part 4: Trust, Governance, and the Attention Ecconomy
    21. i-Trust and i-Privacy— Social, Economic, and Political Manipulation
    22. Governance Part One — Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy
    23. Governance Part Two — Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection
    24. The Attention Economy
    25. Governance and Safety — Electromagnetic Explorations

    Part 5: The Interpersonal
    26. Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship
    27. Sex and Sexuality Part A — Adult Play
    28. Sex and Sexuality Part B — Brain Wiring and the Death of Intimacy
    29. Sex and Sexuality Part C — From Children to Elders, Communication, and Lifestyle Solutions
    30. Benefactors of Change
    31. i-Addiction and i-Life— The Beginnings of a New World
    32. The Tipping Point
    33. Our Future Our Selves

    Epilogue: So What to Do?

    Notes
    Index
    About the Author
    About New Society Publishers

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