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By Acks, Alex[2018]., Enslow Publishers Call No: 302.231 ACK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Critical thinking about digital media.Summary Note: Confirmation bias is the tendency of people to interpret, remember, and specifically seek out information that confirms beliefs they already have. In this text we will explore the ways that the social media bubble encourages confirmation bias, and how to combat it.
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By Fisher, Max2022., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: SOCIAL ISSUES NF FIS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A New York Times investigative reporter . . . through research, exclusive interviews and on-the-ground reporting, captures the tangible havoc wreaked upon our minds and world by the titans of the tech industry, telling the inside story of how the social networks fundamentally altered the world"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Adolescent, Rosen YA Edition: First edition. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS; Available via Gale eBooks. Series Title: Coping.Summary Note: This book offers a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the concept of social media anxiety, dispels many widespread myths and replaces them with up-to-date facts, while helping readers identify whether they are experiencing social media anxiety and offering them reliable strategies for dealing with it if they are. A Myths and Facts sidebar is also included.
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Adolescent Call No: 302.23 STE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Social media can be used for good or for evil. In 2018, organizers of the March for Our Lives used social media to bring roughly 500,000 people to Washington, DC, to peacefully protest against gun violence-a powerful example of how social media can be used for good. But the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 showed just as powerfully how social media can also be used for evil. Behavioral addiction is a mental health condition in which a person engages in a certain behavior, even if that behavior causes him or her harm"--
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2018., Penguin Books Call No: HI-INT 302.2 ALT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control. Behavioral addiction may prove to be one of the most important fields of social, medical, and psychological research in our lifetime. The idea that behaviors can be being addictive is new, but the threat is near universal. Experts are just beginning to acknowledge that we are all potential addicts. Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, is at the cutting edge of research into what makes these products so compulsive, and he documents the hefty price we're likely to pay if we continue blindly down our current path. People have been addicted to substances for thousands of years, but for the past two decades, we've also been hooked on technologies, such as Instagram, Netflix, and Facebook--inventions that we've adopted because we assume they'll make our lives better. These inventions have profound upsides, but their extraordinary appeal isn't an accident. Technology companies and marketers have teams of engineers and researchers devoted to keeping us engaged. They know how to push our buttons, and how to coax us into using their products for hours, days, and weeks on end. Tracing the very notion of addiction through history right up until the present day, Alter shows that we're only just beginning to understand the epidemic of behavioral addiction gripping society. He takes us inside the human brain at the very moment we score points on a smartphone game, or see that someone has liked a photo we've posted on Instagram. But more than that, Alter heads the problem off at the pass, letting us know what we can do to step away from the screen. He lays out the options we have address this problem before it truly consumes us. After all, who among us has struggled to ignore the ding of a new email, the next episode in a TV series, or the desire to play a game just one more time? Adam Alter's previous book, Drunk Tank Pink:And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behaveis available in paperback from Penguin"--
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c2023., Adolescent, ReferencePoint Press Call No: 302.23 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Around half of all people on earth use some form of social media. Social media is part of the fabric of life for billions of people. While it sometimes seems the bad outweighs the good, social media has taken a center role in the modern world.
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2022., General Call No: 320.97 QAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Anthology of curated essays addressing QAnon and conspiracy theories--why they begin, how they catch fire, and how they affect politics and society"--
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-- Technology addiction2020., General, New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. Call No: 616.85 TEC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: In the headlines.Summary Note: Contains a collection of articles published in the "New York Times" by various authors exploring the causes and effects of technology addiction. Includes a glossary, black-and-white photographs, and text-dependent questions.
