Digital Dependence
No. 82 SEPTEMBER 2024
It is estimated that the Portuguese spend an average of ten hours a day connected to the internet, which is more time than they spend sleeping. Steeped in computers, tablets, iPads and smartphones, today’s world lives glued to screens, exposure that begins in the early years of life and is producing digital addicts.
This book depicts the different types of dependencies caused by excessive use of the internet. From video games to social media, from compulsive online shopping to cybersex, as well as online gambling and dependence on social media. It exposes and seeks to present solutions to the challenges of the digital age for politicians, healthcare professionals and teachers, but above all for families. It gives a voice to therapists, presents cases and testimonies and suggestions on how to take a healthy approach to the internet.
It is estimated that the Portuguese spend an average of ten hours a day connected to the internet, which is more time than they spend sleeping. Steeped in computers, tablets, iPads and smartphones, today’s world lives glued to screens, exposure that begins in the early years of life and is producing digital addicts.
This book depicts the different types of dependencies caused by excessive use of the internet. From video games to social media, from compulsive online shopping to cybersex, as well as online gambling and dependence on social media. It exposes and seeks to present solutions to the challenges of the digital age for politicians, healthcare professionals and teachers, but above all for families. It gives a voice to therapists, presents cases and testimonies and suggestions on how to take a healthy approach to the internet.
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Dimensions
6 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9153-77-6