{"product_id":"9781633884441","title":"Left to Their Own Devices : How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sociologist explores the many ways that digital natives' interaction with technology has changed their relationship with people, places, jobs, and other stabilizing structures and created a new way of life that is at odds with the American Dream of past generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDigital natives are hacking the American Dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYoung people brought up with the Internet, smartphones, and social media are quickly rendering old habits, values, behaviors, and norms a distant memory--creating the greatest generation gap in history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this eye-opening book, digital sociologist Julie M. Albright looks at the many ways in which younger people, facilitated by technology, are coming \"untethered\" from traditional aspirations and ideals, and asks: What are the effects of being disconnected from traditional, stabilizing social structures like churches, marriage, political parties, and long-term employment? What does it mean to be human when one's ties to people, places, jobs, and societal institutions are weakened or broken, displaced by digital hyper-connectivity? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlbright sees both positives and negatives. On the one hand, mobile connectivity has given digital nomads the unprecedented opportunity to work or live anywhere. But, new threats to well-being are emerging, including increased isolation, anxiety, and loneliness, decreased physical exercise, ephemeral relationships, fragmented attention spans, and detachment from the calm of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this time of rapid, global, technologically driven change, this book offers fresh insights into the unintended societal and psychological implications of lives exclusively lived in a digital world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prometheus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49038376075491,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781633884441","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}