Winter of Our Disconnect How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (And a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

Name: Winter of Our Disconnect How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (And a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale
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ISBN: 9781585428557

ISBN-10: 1585428558

ISBN-13: 9781585428557

Edition: 2011

Authors: Susan Maushart

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The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son's seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn't blink an eye. Says Maushart: "Looking back, I can understand why. They didn't hear me." For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table, this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition. But it will also make you think. The Winter of Our…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction



Who We Are, and Why We Pressed ï¿½Pauseï¿½



Power Trip: The Darkness Descends



Boredom for Beginners



My iPhone/Myself: Notes from a Digital Fugitive



The Sound of One Hand Doing Homework



Loss of Facebook: Friending the Old-Fashioned Way



Eat, Play, Sleep



The Return of the Digital Native


Afterword


Notes


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