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Publisher
Hunter House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The book includes "Parents' Toolkits" with conversation starters, discussion guidelines and real-life examples, age-specific recommendations for tailoring advice to pre-teen, teen or college-age children, summaries of recent studies, including take-home points for parents or teachers. Sex, Drugs 'n Facebook will prepare parents to have "The Talk"--not about sex but about cybersafety and appropriate Internet use--and the solution-focused approach will...
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways. Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics expert, and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow a lead to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. But as the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes--and Dance is forced...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology― more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity― has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’ s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like...
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Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The topic of cyberbullying tends to appear in the news only after a tragedy. This compelling book explains the abuses that trolls dish out, as well as the impact that cybermobs can have on anyone, from students to business owners. To combat these issues, this book thoughtfully suggests ways that students can actively avoid abuse and includes sound advice about how they can protect themselves if they fall victim to online mistreatment. Along with offering...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Data from a July 2011 study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that 95 percent of teens were online and 80 percent used social networking sites. No matter what platform they use, Web site they visit, or device they own, it's important th
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don't have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves. We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"They were born after 1995. They grew up with cell phones, had an Instagram page before they started high school, and do not remember a time before the Internet. They are different from any generation that came before them. They are one in four Americans. They are iGen. And they have arrived."--Book jacket.
"In this fascinating and lively book, Dr. Jean Twenge offers a revelatory portrait of a new generation that is growing up more slowly and more...
10) Wargames
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, 1983
Description
Young computer genius David Lightman breaks into the Defense Department's war computer, but what he thinks is a game just may start World War III.
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Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Puglishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Author and youth culture expert, Jonathan McKee, and his daughter Alyssa McKee, uncover forty random realizations they've discovered over the last five years. Screens provide fun platforms to connect with faraway friends; and sometimes the people we love the most are the people we ignore all day. Jonathan and Alyssa help young adults navigate face-to-face communication in a screen-to-screen world too! Maybe they'll help you navigate face-to-face communication...
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