The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family. Smartphone Nation will transform the way you - and your children - understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr - one of the UK''s leading experts on digital literacy - explains the corporate and technological structures that hold us all on our screens that bit longer and gives you the tools to push back against them effectively. This life-changing guide provides not only practical tips, clear takeaways and tested strategies, it also sets out why we are still so unprotected in the digital space and why we should all be challenging tech companies and governments to create change. Covering Regehr''s ground-breaking research on algorithms, screen addiction and the rise of online misogyny, this book transforms how we understand our devices and their impacts on us and our children. Smartphone Nation is essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever worried about how they interact with their devices.

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Dr Kaitlyn Regehr is a leading expert on the cultural impacts of social media and the author of Smartphone Nation. She’s an Associate Professor UCL (University College London), lecturing on digital literacy, a prominent voice in the media, a key influence in policy circles, and a mum of two.

Kaitlyn appears regularly in the media as an expert on this subject, including on BBC News, ITV, BBC Women’s Hour, Channel 4 and in The Economist. She has provided consultation in the House of Lords, to Members of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police, the Scottish Government, and Prevent.

Her research fed into the Online Safety Act and the new Cyberflashing legislation.