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1) Hold tight
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Language
English
Description
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become spying, overprotective parents. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant and aloof lately, and after the recent suicide of his classmate, Spencer Hill, they can't help but worry. They install a spy program on Adam's computer and within days they are jolted by a strange message to their son from an unknown correspondent: "Just stay quiet and all safe." Meanwhile, browsing through...
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Series
Language
English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian. Long divorced from Amanda's father, she's reluctant to settle down with either of the men who want her--Alan, the wealthy scion of one of San Francisco's elite families, and Ryan, an enigmatic, scarred former Navy SEAL. While her...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity--and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground,"--Amazon.com.
"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,...
6) WarGames
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
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Language
English
Description
"In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technologymore specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquityhas profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brains pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction,...
Publisher
distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the impact of the world created on line by teens, from kids who are bullied, to those whose only friends are online, to the newest crop of celebrities on YouTube and MySpace.
11) Cut off
Author
Publisher
Red Deer Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A topical tale of one teen's addiction to the Cyber World - and the Northern adventure that saved his life.
Fourteen-year-old Indio McCracken enjoys meteoric stardom as a guitar prodigy after his father posts a video of him playing. Things quickly go sour when Indio's fame fuels his father's dream of raising the world's next Segovia. Robbed of a normal childhood and already feeling alienated by his mixed Guatemalan-Canadian heritage, Indio desperately...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Analyzes how the young people born in the mid-1990s and later significantly differ from those of previous generations, examining how social media and texting may be behind today's unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
vii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The most enduring change wrought by the digital revolution is neither the new business models nor the new search algorithms, but rather the massive generation gap between those who were born digital and those who were not. The first generation of "digital natives"--children who were born into and raised in the digital world--is now coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our cultural life, even the shape of...
15) I am Gen Z
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through expert interviews and the web lens of Gen Z, this documentary explores how the explosion of the digital revolution is impacting our society and mental health.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 367 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Practical advice for raising authentic, self-reliant teenage girls in the age of the Internet from the experienced clinical psychologist Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler It may feel as though your preteen or teenage daughter is growing up in a different universe than you did. Between smartphones, social media, and cyberbullying, the world is changing. Technology is transforming how girls identify themselves, learn, develop social skills, and communicate with...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Kersting
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
iii, 98 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
According to the latest research, the average 13-year-old spends 8 hours per day, seven days a week, glued to a screen. Yes, this is problematic but to every problem there is a solution. Kersting explores the device-dependent world our children live in and how it is affecting their mental and emotional wellbeing. Research show that too much time in the cyber world is re-wiring kid's brains, affecting their ability to flourish in the real world as...
19) Online predators
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Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In today's culture of sexual identity confusion, ubiquitous pornography, and the #MeToo movement, teens need to know how to protect themselves as well as how to treat others. In this resourceful tool, Drs. Robinson and Scott help you understand your teen's world, and provide useful conversation starters and insightful guidance"--
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