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i-Minds, 2nd edition

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How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it

The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also rewire our brains to feel restless, disconnected, unable to sleep, anxious, and depressed, with new illnesses like FOMO (fear of missing out), and electro sensitivities appearing.

Engaging and entertaining yet scientifically rigorous, this fully revised and updated second edition of i-Minds comprehensively explores an era of screen-based technology’s assimilation into our lives, pondering it as both godsend and plague. Addressing theory, popular media, and industry hype, i-Minds demonstrates:

How constant connectivity is changing our brains

The dangers of unchecked connectivity

Positive steps to embrace new technologies while protecting our well-being and steering our future in a more human direction.

i-Minds is a must-read for anyone interested in fostering health and happiness, or who is struggling with the role of screened technology in our lives.

Contributors

Mari K Swingle

Dr. Mari Swingle is a practicing therapist, researcher, lecturer, and author who has been working in the fields of mental health and education for over 25 years. She is a renowned expert on the effects of i-technology, and holds a PhD and MA in Clinical Psychology, an MA in Language Education, and a BA in Fine Arts. She resides in Vancouver, Canada.

Chapter	Contributors	Pages	Year	Price
Introduction My objective? To have us all pondering and examining. To “rise in arms” not against the i-tech industry but to our own blind acceptance or complacency, to our apparent apathy, and the … View	Mari K Swingle	1	2019	$0.10
The Shift Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … View	Mari K Swingle	11	2019	$1.10
Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … View	Mari K Swingle	12	2019	$1.20
The Pull The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in … View	Mari K Swingle	9	2019	$0.90
The Power of sound Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The … View	Mari K Swingle	19	2019	$1.90
The Biological Science I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at … View	Mari K Swingle	21	2019	$2.10
Boxed In Anxiety and its little buddy stress are on the rise in adults and, most troubling, increasingly also in children, adolescents, and youth. We are all now consistently revving at much, much higher … View	Mari K Swingle	17	2019	$1.70
From Digital Natives to i-Kids In this chapter, I am going to speak of a critical dynamic that i-media has with play, learning, and creativity. This is a dynamic that concerns mostly digital natives, and the now very young: … View	Mari K Swingle	12	2019	$1.20
The Story of Alpha In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. View	Mari K Swingle	16	2019	$1.60
The Narrowing of Minds How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. … View	Mari K Swingle	26	2019	$2.60
Of Systems and Process We want to teach children not only how to use technologies, but how to choose technologies, and how to make them. We also want to teach them the caveats including biological hijacking and … View	Mari K Swingle	24	2019	$2.40
Back to Biology Epigenetics simply means is how our individual genetics mix with all the potential influences in our individual environment. As we are increasingly learning, epigenetics are not only important, … View	Mari K Swingle	16	2019	$1.60
From i-Kids to i-Brains In this chapter, I would like to speak to my greater concern. Not changes in temporary brain state(s), or vulnerabilities that leave us all somewhat liable, not even the differences in … View	Mari K Swingle	17	2019	$1.70
Learning, Play, and Parenting With a little walk through history, and a little more developmental theory, I will explore larger cultural shifts in parenting and family systems, expand on the blurred lines of learning and … View	Mari K Swingle	22	2019	$2.20
Socialization In this chapter, I will start a discussion on how, in the name of discipline, safety, and humaneness, i-tech has found yet another niche. How, for better or for worse, i-tech is now the principal … View	Mari K Swingle	21	2019	$2.10
The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral In this chapter and those following, I will continue to build on these arguments but also build further upon the argument of the importance of people: that i-tech should not replace human … View	Mari K Swingle	20	2019	$2.00
Of Games and Gaming I am going to go a bit deeper exploring the specifics of the supposed benefits of gaming as they relate to learning. Within this I’m going to put a microscope over some of the gaming … View	Mari K Swingle	17	2019	$1.70
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly We need more fun in our lives. But, when gaming morphs into obsession, replaces and supersedes multiple forms of physical and mental leisure activity, adversely starts to affect physical health, … View	Mari K Swingle	16	2019	$1.60
Beyond Illusions Excessive screen usage (gaming and beyond) is highly related, if not correlated, with the development of anxiety, depression, and ailments on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. So here I present … View	Mari K Swingle	20	2019	$2.00
Breaking the Trance Media feeds were no longer resembling information distribution (fun or otherwise) they were starting to sound a lot like propaganda. Everything was now far too sweet to taste like truth and now … View	Mari K Swingle	16	2019	$1.60
i-Tech and Healthcare It is time to have closer look at i-tech in caretaking, healthcare, and perhaps in caring in its larger sense too. Let’s start with healthcare. View	Mari K Swingle	4	2019	$0.40
i-Trust and i-Privacy A huge issue that permeates all angles of the i-tech industry is that of trust. Both primary branches — the entertainment branch (e.g., the gaming industry), the social communication branch … View	Mari K Swingle	26	2019	$2.60
Governance Part One The biggest commodity of the digital age is not our money but our data. This is true, but the not-so-secret reason our data is so valuable is that it offers access to our attention. Attention is … View	Mari K Swingle	9	2019	$0.90
Governance Part Two It is more than likely that the majority of the brilliant minds of Silicon Valley, were completely unaware that their work would be, could be, weaponized. Many of these people including those who … View	Mari K Swingle	15	2019	$1.50
The Attention Economy Tuning in at the moment is no longer sufficient. The media want our attention extended, continued, and reengaged after necessary absences such as work and sleep. View	Mari K Swingle	12	2019	$1.20
Governance and Safety Electromagnetic concerns receive little attention because indeed they are hard to present in lay terms. Here is my attempt. View	Mari K Swingle	13	2019	$1.30
Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship When we look at the changes in our own behavior due to i-tech, the first thing to very seriously consider is that the whole concept of social media was thought up by an individual who many … View	Mari K Swingle	20	2019	$2.00
Sex and Sexuality Part A What I am concerned about are the changes in our attitudes and our desires that go far beyond the frameworks of curiosity and a bit of fun. The central issue once again concerns … View	Mari K Swingle	15	2019	$1.50
Sex and Sexuality Part B The viewing of sexual activity or erotica online actually reduces, not raises, the interest in and the performance of real-life sexual activity. Lastly, and this was the eye-opener, in my study … View	Mari K Swingle	13	2019	$1.30
Sex and Sexuality Part C It seems, with every passing decade, children are growing up faster. Innocence has been long lost with the aid of television and the music industry. Increasingly sexualized music videos for … View	Mari K Swingle	9	2019	$0.90
Benefactors of Change Who benefits from the propagation and consumption of sextech and pornography? And who loses? The industries involved, as too all spinoffs of depersonalized touch (such as massage parlors, … View	Mari K Swingle	9	2019	$0.90
i-Addiction and i-Life The realm of i-tech is not just a new space that allows for the extension of boundaries of communication and the maintenance of distal relationships; it is a new space, or rather a new world, one … View	Mari K Swingle	18	2019	$1.80
The Tipping point There are other alterations in behavior that don’t quite qualify as illness, but ones we should also be watching: Of note are increases in self-orientation and self-concern. From … View	Mari K Swingle	14	2019	$1.40
Our Future Our Selves I want to close this book by coming full circle back to what I feel are our most urgent issues: First and foremost are our collective children; the next generations and how we individually and … View	Mari K Swingle	14	2019	$1.40
Epilogue I believe we owe it to ourselves to keep one face, one mind, firmly fixed on the past while the other mind bravely looks forward, embracing change. View	Mari K Swingle	5	2019	$0.50

i-Minds, 2nd edition

How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it

Contributors

Mari K Swingle

Welcome