Screen Damage

The Dangers of Digital Media for Children
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4640-4
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

All forms of recreational digital consumption – whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs – have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13, it’s more than 7 hours a day. Added up over the first 18 years of life, this is the equivalent of almost 30 school years, or 15 years of full-time employment.

Most media experts do not seem overly concerned about this situation: children are adaptable, they say, they are ‘digital natives’, their brains have changed and screens make them smarter. But other specialists – including some paediatricians, psychiatrists, teachers and speech therapists – dispute these claims, and many parents worry about the long-term consequences of their children’s intensive exposure to screens.

Michel Desmurget, a leading neuroscientist, has carefully weighed up the scientific evidence concerning the impact of the digital activities of our children and adolescents, and his assessment does not make for happy reading: he shows that these activities have significant detrimental consequences in terms of the health, behaviour and intellectual abilities of young people, and strongly affect their academic outcomes.

A wake-up call for anyone concerned about the long-term impacts of our children’s over-exposure to screens.

Also available as an audiobook.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desmurget, Michel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: whom should we believe?

Part One

Digital natives: building a myth

Part Two

Uses: an incredible frenzy of recreational screens

Part Three

Impacts: chronicles of a disaster foretold

1. Preamble. Multiple and intricate impacts

2. Academic success. A powerful prejudice

3. Discussion. A damaging environment

4. Health. A silent aggression

Epilogue: a very old brain for a brave new world

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michel Desmurget is a neuroscientist and Director of Research at INSERM, Paris.