EAN: 9781509546404

SCREEN DAMAGE - MICHEL DESMURGET KARTONIERT (TB)

All 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 2.5 hours of screen time a day  by the time they reach 13  it's 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 worry about the long-term consequences of their children's intensive exposure to
screens. Michel Desmurget  a leading neuroscientist  has carefully weighed up the scientific
evidence concerning the impact of the digital activities of our children and adolescents  and
his assessment does not make for happy reading: he shows that these activities have significant
detrimental consequences in terms of the health  behaviour and intellectual abilities of young
people  and strongly affect their academic outcomes. A wake-up call for anyone concerned about
the long-term impacts of our children's over-exposure to screens.

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