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Why We're All Addicted to Screens and What Your Family Can Do About It
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The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family. Smartphone Nation will transform the way you—and your children—understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr—one of the UK's leading experts on digital literacy—explains the corporate...
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See moreThe tools you need to build healthy, safe digital boundaries for your family (and yourself) in a world where offline isn't always an option, from one of the UK's foremost experts in digital culture, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL (University College London)
A a clear, empowering toolkit for parents looking to support their kids to thrive, even in the face of AI, algorithms and our social media-driven world (and anyone else who wants to do the same) from leading expert and UCL Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr.
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The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family.
Smartphone Nation will transform the way you—and your children—understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr—one of the UK's leading experts on digital literacy—explains the corporate and technological structures that hold us all on our screens that bit longer and gives you the tools to push back against them effectively.
This life-changing guide provides not only practical tips, clear takeaways and tested strategies, it also sets out why we are still so unprotected in the digital space and why we should all be challenging tech companies and governments to create change. Covering Regehr's ground-breaking research on algorithms, screen addiction and the rise of online misogyny, this book transforms how we understand our devices and their impacts on us and our children.
Smartphone Nation is essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever worried about how they interact with their devices.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781035069064
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bluebird
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 218g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Dr Kaitlyn Regehr is a leading expert on the cultural impacts of social media. She's an Associate Professor UCL (University College London), lecturing on digital literacy, a prominent voice in the media, a key influence in policy circles, and a mum of two. Kaitlyn appears regularly in the media as an expert on this subject, including on BBC News, ITV, BBC Women's Hour, Channel 4 and in The Economist. She has provided consultation in the House of Lords, to Members of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police, the Scottish Government, and Prevent.
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