My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: Untangle Your Relationship with Tech - Revised and Updated

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Tanya Goodin

My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open

Untangle Your Relationship with Tech - Revised and Updated

Tanya Goodin

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English

White Lion Publishing
07 May 2024

Digital lifestyle; Coping with illness; Popular psychology

Digital detox expert and tech therapist Tanya Goodin is on a mission to help us have a healthier relationship with our electronics. Here, she collects hours of conversations to form a fascinating compendium of everyday problems we all struggle with, plus solutions to stop them taking over lives.

Whether you are dealing with a partner who is mindlessly scrolling rather than listening to you (phubbing), flooding social media with your child's image (sharenting), or panicking whenever you misplace your phone (nomophobia), learn how to recognise and label harmful habits- both of yourself and others - and find actionable answers in this book. The collision of our online and offline worlds has left us more dependent on technology than ever before, and even more desperate to log off. My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance and addressing strange new social norms. Complete with diagnostic guides to tell-tale signs and a manifesto for improved digital citizenship, this habit-improving bible offers the conversation-starting vocabulary we so desperately need to understand and untangle our relationship with technology for a more humane world. Among the scenarios included are: Doomscrolling - endlessly consuming doom-and-gloom news, a habit perpetuated by attention-seeking algorithms that triggers anxiety and depression; Comparison Culture - 52% of teens feel less confident because of feeling inadequate when comparing their social media profiles with other people's; Vampire Shoppers - dead-of-night, sleepless shoppers who spend a third more than daytime shoppers, and range from nocturnal gamers to exhausted parents; Digital Legacies - before the end of the century there could be 4.9 billion deceased internet users, yet only 7% of us want our online profiles maintained after death; Cyberchondria - Dr Google is causing a wave of misdiagnoses from anxious searchers, with 35% of all US adults among this number; Clicktivism - also known as slacktivism, is virtue signalling through performative alignment with online causes, but can it ever amount to meaningful change? Both a wake-up call and a user's guide, My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open is your key to finding digital balance.

By: Tanya Goodin
Imprint: White Lion Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New Edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780711264281
ISBN 10: 0711264287
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 07 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Tanya Goodin is an author and expert commentator on digital detox, children using screens, digital addiction, tech dependency and work:life balance. She has appeared on BBC Breakfast, Sky News, CCTV (China State TV), ITN London News, BBC R4 Today' Programme, BBC Woman's Hour, the ITV National News, and the BBC World Service. Her articles can be found in The Guardian, London Evening Standard, Marie Claire, The Daily Mail and The Sun. Tanya is the founder of digital wellbeing movement Time To Log Off (@timetologoff), which runs digital detox retreats for adults and coordinates UK Unplugging Day, and is a consultant for schools, couples, parents and companies of all sizes. Her podcast It's Complicated' examines our relationship with our smartphones and includes inspiring guests such as Nikita Gill, Cal Newport, Hinge CEO Justin McLeod and Love Islander Dr Alex George. Follow Tanya on Twitter @tanyagoodin and on Instagram @timetologoff, and visit her websites tanyagoodin.com and itstimetologoff.com

Reviews for My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: Untangle Your Relationship with Tech - Revised and Updated

‘Tanya Goodin’s new book is informative, alarming and galvanising.’ * Daily Telegraph * ‘Better interact with the digital world to get the benefits without the anxiety.’ * Psychologies *