Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream by Albright, Julie M.

Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781633884441)

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Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream by Albright, Julie M.

Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream

$24.00
Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream by Albright, Julie M.

Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream

$24.00
Format: Hardcover
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Digital natives are hacking the American Dream. Young people brought up with the Internet, smartphones, and social media are quickly rendering old habits, values, behaviors, and norms a distant memory--creating the greatest generation gap in history. In this eye-opening book, digital sociologist Julie M. Albright looks at the many ways in which younger people, facilitated by technology, are coming "untethered" from traditional aspirations and ideals, and asks: What are the effects of being disconnected from traditional, stabilizing social structures like churches, marriage, political parties, and long-term employment? What does it mean to be human when one's ties to people, places, jobs, and societal institutions are weakened or broken, displaced by digital hyper-connectivity? Albright sees both positives and negatives. On the one hand, mobile connectivity has given digital nomads the unprecedented opportunity to work or live anywhere. But, new threats to well-being are emerging, including increased isolation, anxiety, and loneliness, decreased physical exercise, ephemeral relationships, fragmented attention spans, and detachment from the calm of nature.In this time of rapid, global, technologically driven change, this book offers fresh insights into the unintended societal and psychological implications of lives exclusively lived in a digital world.

Author: Julie M. Albright
ISBN-10: 1633884449
ISBN-13: 9781633884441
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d

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Choice 11/01/2019
By Julie M. Albright
By Julie M. Albright
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Julie M. Albright, PhD, is a sociologist specializing in digital culture and communications. She is a lecturer in the Applied Psychology and Engineering Departments at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Albright's research has focused on the growing intersection of technology and social/behavioral systems. She was the co-principal investigator and project lead for the behavioral component of a $121 million smart-grid demonstration project with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the USC Information Sciences Institute, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and UCLA, which was funded by the US Department of Energy. She has also been a research associate with eHarmony. In addition, Dr. Albright has served as a peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, and a variety of professional publications. The author of a number of book chapters and multiple peer-reviewed articles, she has also given talks for major data-center and energy conferences, including SAP for Utilities, IBM Global, DatacenterDynamics, and the Department of Defense. She has appeared as an expert in such national media as the Today show, CNN, NBC Nightly News, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, NPR, and many others.

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