REBOOT: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World

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Digital technologies arent just transforming every area of life; theyre transforming us. This book couldnt be more timely.Catherine Mayer, author of Good Grief.

In a world full of algorithms, addictive apps and data-driven adverts, it often feels as if the digital environment is determining our behaviour. We trace our steps, track our kids and share our lives online, without really knowing whether this technology is serving our best interests or those of the people we love.

We speak as though technology is a powerful, unstoppable force and we are the victims. But are we as helpless as we assume

In Reboot, leading psychotherapist and cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket offers a new approach to understanding technologys role at every stage of our lives. Journeying from digital gestation to the digital afterlife, through infancy, adolescence and adulthood, Kasket connects the dots between our technology usage and the challenges it poses to our identity and development, and to our relationships and privacy.

Via discussions of sharenting, surveillance and social media, Kasket reveals how we consistently underestimate our power to shape our relationships with and through technology. She invites us to question auto-pilot approaches and instead move forward in a more deliberate, mindful and empowered way.

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A critical reminder that, at every stage of life, we get to choose our relationship with technology and our choices shape our humanity. Kaskets book is a roadmap filled with generous possibilities. LUKE BURGIS, AUTHOR OF WANTING

Digital technologies arent just transforming every area of life. Theyre transforming us, and this book, examining the psychological, social and technological intersections of this transformation, couldnt be more timely. CATHERINE MAYER, AUTHOR OF GOOD GRIEF

Witty, bracingly honest, deeply humane and piercingly insightful PATRICK STOKES, AUTHOR OF DIGITAL SOULS

Reboot is an incredibly well researched and entertaining book. Kasket has the ability to illustrate complex research areas through engaging, human stories that often reach all the way into your heart. As a recent parent, this book really made me reevaluate the way I use technology around my family. I do research on the impact of digital technology for a living. Even so, this is undoubtedly one of the most thought-provoking books Ive read this year. CARL HMAN, AUTHOR OF THE AFTERLIFE OF DATA

Author Bio

ELAINE KASKET is a psychologist, speaker and writer, and an expert on the modern challenges and opportunities brought about by technology. Speaking about life, relationships, privacy and the power of big tech, Elaine appears frequently in the mainstream media as well as on podcasts and at major festivals. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She also serves as an Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton. All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of your Personal Data (2019) was her first book for a general audience. A reformed 'sharenter' when it comes to her own child, Elaine is a passionate believer in our right to control personal information and tell our stories.