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13
Raija-Leena Punamäki, Marjut Wallenius, Clase-Håkan Nygård, Lea Saarni, and Arja Rimpelä, “Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Perceived Health in Adolescence: The Role of Sleeping Habits and Waking-Time Tiredness,”
Journal of Adolescence
, 30, no. 4 (August 2007).
14
Robert E. Roberts, Catherine Ramsay Roberts, and Hao T. Duong, “Sleepless in Adolescence: Prospective Data on Sleep Deprivation, Health and Functioning,”
Journal of Adolescence
, 32, no. 5 (2009), 1045−1057.
15
Ibid.
16
Calamaro et al., “Adolescents Living the 24/7 Lifestyle.”
17
Ibid.
18
Ibid.
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Return of the Digital Native
1
Natasha Bita, “Ban Television for Toddlers,”
The Australian
, October 12, 2009.
2
Spacks,
Boredom
.
» Recommended Reading
Australian Communications and Media Authority. “Click and Connect: Young Australians’ Use of Online Social Media.” July 2009.
Bauerlein, Mark.
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).
New York: Tarcher, 2008.
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.”
The Atlantic
, July/August 2008.
———.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Conley, Dalton.
Elsewhere, USA.
New York: Pantheon, 2009.
Gordhamer, Soren.
Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected.
New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Harkin, James.
Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and Who We Are.
London: Little, Brown, 2009.
Jackson, Maggie.
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2009.
Johnson, Steven.
Everything Bad Is Good for You
. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Jones, Sydney, and Susannah Fox. “Generations Online in 2009.” Pew Internet & American Life Project. January 28, 2009.
Lenhart, Amanda. “Teens and Mobile Phones over the Past Five Years: Pew Internet Looks Back.” Pew Internet & American Life Project. August 19, 2009.
Macgill, Alexandra Rankin. “Parents, Teens and Technology.” Pew Internet & American Life Project. October 24, 2008.
Mazo, Gary, Martin Trautschold, and Kevin Michaluk.
CrackBerry: True Tales of BlackBerry Use and Abuse.
Charleston, SC: BookSurge, 2008.
McLuhan, Marshall.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
New York: New American Library, 1964.
Naish, John.
Enough: Breaking Free from the World of Excess.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.
Ophir, Eyal, Clifford Nass, and Anthony D. Wagner. “Cognitive Control in Media Multitaskers.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
, August 2009.
Osit, Michael.
Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything.
New York: AMACOM, 2008.
Palfrey, John, and Urs Glasser.
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.
New York: Basic Books, 2008.
Postman, Neil.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.
New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking, 1985.
———.
The Disappearance of Childhood.
New York: Vintage/Random House, 1994.
Roberts, Donald F., Ulla G. Foehr, and Victoria Rideout. “Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds.” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. March 2005.
Small, Gary, and Gigi Vorgan.
iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind.
New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Tapscott, Don.
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden.
Edited by Sherman Paul. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1957. (First published in 1854.)
» About the Author
Author and social commentator Dr. Susan Maushart is a columnist for
The Weekend Australian Magazine
and an independent producer for ABC Radio Australia. Her previous four books have been published in eight languages. She holds a Ph.D. in media ecology from New York University.
a
A family uniform involving brown felt and Velcro; eating breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast; etc.
b
And, in answer to your question, yes, I’ve tried resetting my alerts. It doesn’t help. In fact,
not
knowing when messages arrive is even more distracting somehow.
c
The Republican Digital Immigrant.
d
Deep and meaningful.
e
I also intended to visit Walden Pond to pay my respects, but, alas, I never got there. “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in,” Thoreau had written. In the end, I just ran out of stream.
f
Real Life.
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