Unwired, Gaia Bernstein
Unwired, Gaia Bernstein
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Unwired
Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

Author: Gaia Bernstein

Narrator: Faith Connor

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/05/2023


Synopsis

Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

About Gaia Bernstein

Gaia Bernstein is the technology, privacy, and policy professor of law, codirector of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and codirector of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. She writes, teaches, and lectures on subjects at the intersections of law, technology, health, and privacy. Professor Bernstein developed a nationally recognized outreach program on technology overuse for school-aged children and their parents. She is also a mother of three children who grew up in the era of smartphones, screens, and social media.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kat

As an addiction specialist, I have mixed feelings about this book. 1. Knowing that the author is a law professor, I expected a more complex approach from a judicial point of view. 2. I haven´t learned much new stuff, but that's probably due to my own profession. 3. It´s very repetitive. 4. I Can´t sha......more

Goodreads review by Anne

In this book Gaia Bernstein rings a resounding alarm about the dangers of our growing addiction to technology. Perhaps the most explicit analogy she gives about what’s happening is likening us to frogs in the water. Like the hapless frog, we sit unaware in the slowly heating water, not realising it’......more

I appreciated the opportunity to read this book before publication. It provides a holistic assessment of the dangers of technology overuse, the role of industry and market forces in exacerbating it, and most importantly the prospects for countering these forces through legal, public policy and consu......more

Goodreads review by Jj

Reading this book felt like taking several doses of very bitter and unpleasant medication several times in a row, but medications we know will be good for us. Bernstein has a very incisive way of looking at things, and while I know I personally have a screen time problem, she makes several great poi......more

Great book. Berstein takes the time to break down our addiction to social media and the tech industry's response to the tobacco industry and the food industry. Each ends with summaries and recommendations. MY biggest takeaway is that the the tech inudstry has a responsibility to youth who are still......more