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Mindful tech : how to bring balance to our digital lives / David M. Levy.
From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. David M. Levy, who has lived his life between the "fast world" of high tech and the "slow world" of contemplation, offers a welcome guide to being more relaxed, attentive, and emotionally balanced while online. In a series of exercises carefully designed to help readers observe and reflect on their own use., Levy has readers observe themselves while emailing and while multitasking , and also to experiment with unplugging for a specified period.
Record details
- ISBN: 0300208316
- ISBN: 9780300208313
- Physical Description: xix, 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Falling in the Fountain -- 2. Observing Our Online Lives -- 3. Attention, Emotions, and the Body -- 4. Exercise 1: Observing Email (or Facebook or Texting ...) -- 5. Exercise 2: Focused Email (or Facebook or Texting ...) -- 6. Exercise 3: Observing Multitasking -- 7. Exercise 4: Focused Multitasking -- 8. Exercise 5: Mindful Unplugging -- 9. Honing Our Digital Craft -- 10. Broadening and Deepening the Conversation. |
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| Subject: | Technology > Philosophy. Mindfulness (Psychology) Internet users > Conduct of life. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansdowne Library | T 14 L489 2016 (Text) | 26040003267131 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Presenting a series of exercises carefully designed to help readers observe and reflect on their own use, this timely resource to being more relaxed, attentive and emotionally balanced while online opens up new avenues for self-inquiry and will allow readers to make meaningful and powerful changes in a digital world. - Yale UniversityThrough a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices
- Yale UniversityThrough a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices
From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overload, stress, and distraction. In recent years many of us have begun to look at the pluses and minuses of our online lives and to ask how we might more skillfully use the tools we&;ve developed.
 
David M. Levy, who has lived his life between the &;fast world&; of high tech and the &;slow world&; of contemplation, offers a welcome guide to being more relaxed, attentive, and emotionally balanced, and more effective, while online. In a series of exercises carefully designed to help readers observe and reflect on their own use, Levy has readers watch themselves closely while emailing and while multitasking, and also to experiment with unplugging for a specified period. Never prescriptive, the book opens up new avenues for self-inquiry and will allow readers&;in the workplace, in the classroom, and in the privacy of their homes&;to make meaningful and powerful changes.
