Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children

by Michel Desmurget Narrated by Lyle Blaker

Overview

All forms of recreational digital consumption-whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles, or TVs-have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of two, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach thirteen, it's more than seven hours a day. Added up over the first eighteen years of life, this is the equivalent of almost thirty school years, or fifteen 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 pediatricians, 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 listening: he shows that these activities have significant detrimental consequences in terms of the health, behavior, and intellectual abilities of young people, and strongly affect their academic outcomes.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Let us add this brisk and persuasive work by Michel Desmurget to the necessary list of books warning against the impact of screens on the young. He gives the digiphiles exactly the credit they deserve for having peddled to our kids the tools that clog their heads and seize their eyes. His portrait of the toddler at the screen is frightening, of the teen “submerged” in media dismaying, and he busts one happy myth after another. This is a sober caution to parents, teachers and other supervisors of the young.”
Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

“Desmurget advances vitally important points.”
City Journal

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159698803
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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