Dr. Grant is an internationally award-winning media psychologist, published researcher, Doctoral Addictions Counselor, and educator with specific expertise in technology's impact on mental health.
In this podcast on device addiction, Dr. Don Grant explains how he became a leading researcher on device addiction.
Questions answered:
- Why/how did you get into this whole “Device Management” game and why are you so passionate about it?
- How did the “Stay-At-Home”/confinement/pandemic impact, affect, and/or effect our device use?
- What is the difference between a “Digital Immigrant” and a “Digital Native?”
- What about professional online engagement? I heard you have been working on some sort of “guidelines” about that?
- Why is everyone talking about devices, the Internet, and social media being so “dangerous?”
- Is cyberbullying as much of a problem as I hear it is? How is it different from bullying IRL?
- What do you actually mean when you talk about practicing “Good Digital Citizenship?”
- You talk a LOT about “Absent” vs “Present” presence. What is the difference between them?
- Does social media really impact mental as much as people are claiming?
- How about those “Gamers,” eh? How did the pandemic affect them?
- What are some of the signs that device use is a problem-or beginning to become one?
- What are some of the potential issues/struggles adolescents/teens-or maybe even all of us-experienced while in confinement?
- What can we do to try and adopt healthier Device Management behaviors?
- What is “Comparing & Despairing” and is it the same as “Doomscrolling?
- Tell me about that research study about attachment that you presented when you were the keynote last Fall at WCSAD and that you are also presenting at the American Psychological Association Convention in Minneapolis this coming August.
- Tell me about your new PHP/IOP in Santa Monica-and are you offering your Healthy Device Management curriculum there?
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