Screens and social media use ~ resources collected by Nicola Morgan

For most up-to-date and complete list of references: nicolamorgan.com/heartsong-blog/resources-about-social-media/ KEY BOOKS • THE ORGANIZED MIND by Daniel Levitin – crucial info re multi-tasking • THE HAPPINESS EFFECT by Donna Freitas – effect of social media on wellbeing • IRRESISTIBLE by Adam Alter – how and why screens etc are so…irresistible • SEX, LIKES AND SOCIAL MEDIA by Allison Havey and Deana Puccio • RECLAIMING CONVERSATION – The power of talk in a digital age by Sherry Turkle • IT’S COMPLICATED – The social lives of networked teens by Danah Boyd • CYBER EFFECT by Mary Aiken + GLOW KIDS by Nicholas Kardaris – very negative • MARSHMALLOW TEST by Walter Mischel – with strategies for resisting temptation! SELECTED ARTICLES RE RESEARCH (MANY more on website – see link above or blog sidebar)

• Whether teenagers are lonely (not really!) theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/08/teenagers-loneliness-social-media-isolation-parents-attention

• Google generation 2: Research from UCL into behaviour of Google generation online: pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a3e0/75d194661568b6279ed82ac1641576ce9c4f.pdf

• Daniel Levitin explaining the brain bandwidth theory I often talk about: fastcompany.com/3051417/why-its-so-hard-to-pay-attention-explained-by-science

• Attached to technology and paying a price. Mostly multi-tasking and digital distraction: nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html

• Welcome to the Internet and the info age: telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/8316534/Welcome-to-the-information-age-174-newspapers-a-day.html

• Can kids really do homework and multi-task? schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/technology/using-technology/homework-and-multitasking-can-it-be-done

• Excellent article on Teen Ink, aimed at teenagers, on digital distraction and social media: teenink.com/hot_topics/what_matters/article/781313/Digital-Distraction/

• Highly-connected – lower empathy - “Media Use, Face-to-Face communication, media multi-tasking and social wellbeing among 8-12-year-old girls” https://books.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/dev-48-2-327.pdf

KEY BLOG POSTS OF MINE

• We shouldn’t ask whether screen time is good or bad: benefits and downsides: nicolamorgan.com/heartsong-blog/is-screentime-good-or-bad-for-teenagers/

• Managing screens, digital and social media – strategies nicolamorgan.com/heartsong-blog/managing-screen-time-social-and-digital-media-for-schools-and-parents/

• Working while listening to music – NOT the same as being distracted by messages or TV: nicolamorgan.com/heartsong-blog/can-you-work-well-while-listening-to-music/

• Refs re Readaxation + R for pleasure: nicolamorgan.com/projects/resources-reading-the-brain-and-wellbeing/

My website has resources for parents, teachers, other professionals and teenagers. You will also find my teaching materials, Brain Sticks and Stress Well for Schools, and the ebook, Exam Attack. My books, including Blame My Brain, The Teenage Guide to Stress and The Teenage Guide to Friends, are written for teenagers and but popular with adults. I am working on LIFE ONLINE (2019) and POSITIVELY TEENAGE (2018). I’ve also written award-winning novels for teenagers. I do events, lectures and seminars around the world, for schools, conferences and other organisations, as well as consultancy work on anything relating to adolescence, wellbeing, stress, life online and the science of reading, Readaxation and reading for pleasure. Do contact me.

More information and contact: www.nicolamorgan.com

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