Screen Addiction Research Update
I am continuing my research on screen addiction for my capstone paper, and have continued reading a book I mentioned in the last blog post, which is Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids- and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras. The book includes many personal accounts of families affected by screen addiction, as well as how screen addiction begins and its causes and effects. Many doctors and other professionals do not believe that screen addiction exists and that is is an actual disorder, but the signs are there. Take the documentary Screenagers, for example. Below is a trailer.
Screenagers is about a pediatrician mother of three who has a problem many parents today are facing: what cell phone to get for their oldest child. The said mother also notices how tech is taking control of her family, and her plan to stop it. I have not watched the documentary, but the trailer peaked my interest, as I felt as though the scenarios in the documentary were not unlike what happens in many households across the country. The documentary was also similar to some of the accounts in Karadaras' book, where families were being torn apart by screen addicted children and teenagers. Parents, too, can be addicted to screens, as is shown in an article by the The Huffington Post about a Chinese ad campaign entitled 'The Phone Wall,' which shows the impact a tech addicted parent can have on a family. The link is shown below:
I have not yet completely narrowed down exactly what my topic is, but I know it will have something to do with screen addiction. I have lots of questions about screen addiction, such as
-How can we get parents to recognize the dangers of too much screen time?
-What is the best way to educate the public about screen addiction?
-What is the best way to treat screen addiction at the early, intermediate and too late stages?
-Why is screen addiction caused?
I am still reading Glow Kids and plan to begin narrowing down my topic as I get further into reading the book and doing other research. There is still a lot of work to be done, such as narrowing down my list of questions to contain only relevant questions. Another task I have to complete is to come up with a declaration of research, which is a statement that says what I am researching, why I am researching it, and what I want to help myself and the reader understand. This will (hopefully) be present in the next post, at least in a rough draft stage.
Have a great rest of your day!
