My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open
How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech
by Tanya Goodin
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Pub Date Nov 09 2021 | Archive Date Sep 21 2021
Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion | White Lion Publishing
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Description
Whether you are dealing with a partner who is mindlessly scrolling rather than listening to you (phubbing), flooding social media with your child’s image (sharenting), or panicking whenever you misplace your phone (nomophobia), learn how to recognise and label harmful habits– both of yourself and others – and find actionable answers in this book.
The collision of our online and offline worlds has left us more dependent on technology than ever before, and even more desperate to log off. My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance and addressing strange new social norms.
Complete with diagnostic guides to tell-tale signs and a manifesto for improved digital citizenship, this habit-improving bible offers the conversation-starting vocabulary we so desperately need to understand and untangle our relationship with technology for a more humane world.
Among the scenarios included are:
- Doomscrolling – endlessly consuming doom-and-gloom news, a habit perpetuated by attention-seeking algorithms that triggers anxiety and depression;
- Comparison Culture – 52% of teens feel less confident because of feeling inadequate when comparing their social media profiles with other people’s;
- Vampire Shoppers – dead-of-night, sleepless shoppers who spend a third more than daytime shoppers, and range from nocturnal gamers to exhausted parents;
- Digital Legacies – before the end of the century there could be 4.9 billion deceased internet users, yet only 7% of us want our online profiles maintained after death;
- Cyberchondria – Dr Google is causing a wave of misdiagnoses from anxious searchers, with 35% of all US adults among this number;
- Clicktivism – also known as slacktivism, is virtue signalling through performative alignment with online causes, but can it ever amount to meaningful change?
Both a wake-up call and a user’s guide, My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780711264274 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 224 |
Featured Reviews
Her Digital C, Reviewer
I really enjoyed this book. Goodin presented lots of facts along with personal stories that give insight as to why too much time online can be an issue. I loved the illustrations along with the summary pages at the end of each chapter.
This book is divided into 3 sections, they’re titled “Loving,” “Living,” and “Learning.” I connected with every chapter in “Living” as well as “On Tech-Life Balance” and “On Doomscrolling” in “Learning.” We all use our phones, computers, and social media, which is why I recommend this book to everyone. Goodin has great advice that we could all apply to our tech usage. Thank you to NetGalley and Quatro Publishing Group - White Lion for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
Eric G, Educator
I learned a lot about our world from reading this book. I learned to better understand terms I have heard and learned new terminology for our time of which I had not heard. Very helpful in understanding our times and especially the younger folks with whom I work.
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