A list of interesting books on the topic of technology in society:
- In Our Own Image by George Zarkadakis
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking our Kids – and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras
- It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd
- To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O’Connell
- Rise of the Machines by Thomas Rid
- The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku
- The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
- Machines That Think by New Scientist
There are many relevant studies on this topic and it would be difficult to list them all here. Instead, below are a few of the studies in this field that I personally find particularly interesting and recommend, along with a list of my own publications on the subject.
A selection of interesting studies on psychology X technology:
- Problematic smartphone use: A conceptual overview and systematic review of relations with anxiety and depression psychopathology
- Long-Term Effects of Avoidant Coping on Adolescents’ Depressive Symptoms
- A Conceptual and Methodological Critique of Internet Addiction Research: Towards a Model of Compensatory Internet Use
- Rest Is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education
- Texting while stressed: Implications for students’ burnout, sleep, and well-being
- Negative consequences from heavy social networking in adolescents: The mediating role of fear of missing out
- Perceived connections between information and communication technology use and mental symptoms among young adults – a qualitative study
- Problematic Internet and mobile phone use and clinical symptoms in college students: The role of emotional intelligence
- Using the uses and gratifications theory to understand gratifications sought through text messaging practices of male and female undergraduate students
My publications:
- Avoidance or boredom: Negative mental health outcomes associated with use of Information and Communication Technologies depend on users’ motivations
- Behavioral Addictions, Chapter 3: Social Media Addiction
- Is smartphone addiction really an addiction?
- How passion and impulsivity influence a player’s choice of videogame, intensity of playing and time spent playing
- A critical consideration of social networking sites’ addiction potential
- Internet Addiction Test research through a cross-cultural perspective: Spain, USA and Colombia
- Specific smartphone uses and how the relate to anxiety and depression in university students: a cross-cultural perspective
- La investigación del Internet Addiction Test desde una perspectiva intercultural: España, Estados Unidos y Colombia
- Trends in scientific literature on addiction to the Internet, video games and cell phones from 2006 to 2010
A selection of books on urban design/planning and how it interacts with well-being:
- Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- The Great Good Place
- The Geography of Nowhere
- Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
- Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbia
- How to Turn a Place Around: A Placemaking Handbook
- Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
- Cities for People
- The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
- Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday life
- The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behaviour, and Well-Being
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living (The Happiness Institute Series)
- Walkable City
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- The Architecture of Happiness
- Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
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