{"product_id":"the-winter-of-our-disconnect-how-three-totally-wired-teenagers-and-a-mother-who-slept-with-her-iphonepulled-the-plug-on-their-technology-and-lived-paperback","title":"The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Maushart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son's seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn't blink an eye. Says Maushart: \"Looking back, I can understand why. They didn't hear me.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table, this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition. But it will also make you think. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Winter of Our Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to examine the toll that technology is taking on their own family connections, and to create a media ecology that instead encourages kids-and parents-to thrive. Indeed, as a self-confessed single mom who \"slept with her iPhone,\" Maushart knew her family's exile from Cyburbia wasn't going to be any easier for her than for her three teenagers, ages fourteen, fifteen, and eighteen. Yet they all soon discovered that the rewards of becoming \"unplugged\" were more rich and varied than any cyber reality could ever be.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Maushart is a columnist for \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and is heard regularly on ABC Radio as host of the acclaimed online series \"Multiple Choice.\" Maushart has a PhD in Media Ecology from New York University and her book \u003ci\u003eThe Mask of Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e was hailed by the \u003ci\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a feminist classic.\" She lives in Australia but will be returning to live in the Long Island, New York, area this winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.24 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44553268691079,"sku":"9781585428557","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/wC8lxNRrOu9781585428557.webp?v=1777575020","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-winter-of-our-disconnect-how-three-totally-wired-teenagers-and-a-mother-who-slept-with-her-iphonepulled-the-plug-on-their-technology-and-lived-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}