iDisorder
Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us
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4.2 • 6 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
iDisorder: changes to your brain's ability to process information and your ability to relate to the world due to your daily use of media and technology resulting in signs and symptoms of psychological disorders - such as stress, sleeplessness, and a compulsive need to check in with all of your technology. Based on decades of research and expertise in the "psychology of technology," Dr. Larry Rosen offers clear, down-to-earth explanations for why many of us are suffering from an "iDisorder." Rosen offers solid, proven strategies to help us overcome the iDisorder we all feel in our lives while still making use of all that technology offers. Our world is not going to change, and technology will continue to penetrate society even deeper leaving us little chance to react to the seemingly daily additions to our lives. Rosen teaches us how to stay human in an increasingly technological world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Psychologist Rosen asserts that the Internet puts people at risk of developing "iDisorders" a broad array of ills ranging from narcissism to obsessive-compulsive disorder to hyperchondria that, he contends, can be triggered by the overuse of technology. Rosen says he's not against technology, but concludes that "most people are being slowly pulled toward an obsessive iDisorder." Though the author presents plenty of anecdotes of shy people who spend a lot of time on social networking sites, narcissists who write and rewrite their social media profiles, or "cyberchondriacs" who scour the Web for evidence of their supposed medical conditions, he doesn't convincingly show that technology caused any underlying psychological problem. The book is full of data but many are either obvious or have already been well-publicized: drivers who use handheld cellphones are more likely to get hurt in car crashes; some people sleep with an iPhone by their beds so they can read friends' status updates upon waking; people seek medical advice online because they don't want to wait for doctors' appointments. Unfortunately, Rosen isn't able to draw on the facts and figures to offer any new insight into how technology might be affecting us.
