Left to our own devices: Outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships, health, and focus
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"Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways--uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity.Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered likes on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other off-label adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices." -- Amazon.com.
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Internet -- Psychological aspects
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Internet in psychotherapy
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Psychological aspects
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Technology -- trends
Telemedicine
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Wearable Electronic Devices
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9781977309020
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Grouping Title | left to our own devices outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships health and focus |
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subject_facet | Audiobooks Computer Technology Downloadable audio books Electronic books Health Internet -- Psychological aspects Internet -- Social aspects Internet Access Internet in psychotherapy Interpersonal Relations Interpersonal relations Nonfiction Social Identification Sociology TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects Technology Technology -- trends Telemedicine Wearable Electronic Devices | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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title_full | Left to our own devices : outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships, health, and focus / Margaret E. Morris ; foreword by Sherry Turkle Left to our own devices [electronic resource] : Outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships, health, and focus. Margaret E Morris Left to our own devices [electronic resource] : outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships, health, and focus / Margaret E. Morris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Left to our own devices | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | Outsmarting smart technology to reclaim our relationships, health, and focus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Computer Technology Health Internet Internet Access Internet in psychotherapy Interpersonal Relations Interpersonal relations Nonfiction Psychological aspects Social Identification Social aspects Sociology TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects Technology Telemedicine Wearable Electronic Devices trends |