Screen Damage – The Dangers of Digital Media for Children Desmurget Hardback

Screen DamageThe Dangers of Digital Media for Children\nAuthor(s): Michel Desmurget, Andrew Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509546398, 978-1509546398\nSynopsis\nAll forms of recreational digital consumption whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than [url] hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13, its more than 7 hours a day. Added up over the first 18 years of life, this is the equivalent of almost 30 school years, or 15 years of full-time employment. Most media experts do not seem overly concerned about this situation: children are adaptable, they say, they are digital natives, their brains have changed and screens make them smarter. But other specialists including some paediatricians, psychiatrists, teachers and speech therapists dispute these claims, and many parents wor.