Smartphone Nation
Why We're All Addicted to Our Screens and What You and Your Family Can Do About It
A refreshingly candid guide to gaining agency with your smartphone, filled with exercises and science-backed strategies to help you and your children become healthy and informed digital citizens in the age of the smartphone, social media and AI.
How many times have you looked at your phone today? Or rather, how many times did you look at your phone to do one thing, only to find yourself looking at something completely different ten minutes later? We’re all addicted to screens, but what can you do about it?
Whether we like it or not, our lives and careers, as well as those of our children, will be shaped by social media, apps, and AI. In today’s attention economy, our minds and our attention…
DR. KAITLYN REGEHR is a leading expert on the cultural impacts of social media. She is an Associate Professor at University College London, lecturing on digital literacy, a prominent voice in the media, a key influence in policy circles, and a mother of two. Dr. Regehr has provided consultation to members of the House of Lords, to Members of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police, and the Scottish Government. Her research fed into the Online Safety Act and cyberflashing legislation in the UK. She appears regularly in the media as an expert on this subject, including on BBC News, ITV, BBC Woman’s Hour, Channel 4, and in The Economist. Originally from Toronto, she is now based in London.