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Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies shows us a way out. Rather than blaming users, the book shatters the illusion that we autonomously choose how to spend our time online. It shifts the moral responsibility and accountability for solutions to corporations. Drawing lessons from the tobacco and food industries, the book demonstrates why government regulation is necessary to curb technology addiction. It describes a grassroots movement already in action across courts and legislative halls. Groundbreaking and urgent, Unwired provides a blueprint to develop this movement for change, to one that will allow us to finally gain control.

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Gaia Bernstein is the technology, privacy, and policy professor of law, codirector of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and codirector of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law. She writes, teaches, and lectures on subjects at the intersections of law, technology, health, and privacy. Professor Bernstein developed a nationally recognized outreach program on technology overuse for school-aged children and their parents. She is also a mother of three children who grew up in the era of smartphones, screens, and social media. Faith Connor is a professional narrator and a PhD candidate in clinical psychology. Faith studied vocal performance and philosophy at Tulane University before moving to New York City to study the Meisner technique of acting at The William Esper Studio. She has appeared on popular TV programs and commercials, and has traveled around New York and New Jersey with Second Act, an organization which brings educational plays about substance use disorder and recovery to schools and community centers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her fiance, Doug, and her cat, Beignet (named after the New Orleanian pastry, of course).

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