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Screen Time, Hardback Book

Screen Time Hardback

Hardback

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"A little gem of a book chronicling that most gullible of all species, the human being" - Craig Brown, Books of the Year 2019, Mail on Sunday "Dafydd Jones has focused on one of the most dominant elements of the social life of our times - how the smartphone has taken us all over.

It is a timely and rather sobering look at this phenomenon, done with his usual eloquence as a photographer." - Martin Parr.

Almost everyone uses a smartphone, and most of us are addicted.

In this book, photographer Dafydd Jones shows us just how pervasive our screen addiction has become.

In almost every social situation, he shows how the smartphone has killed conversation and changed the way we look at the world. 'In the eighties and nineties', says Jones, 'when I photographed young people at parties or balls, I'd find them chatting each other up, or smooching in corners.

Now I see them sneaking looks on their iPhones, checking on their Instagram feeds, or whatever it is they're hooked on.

They hardly talk to each other, or make eye contact at all. And it's not just a generational thing - it afflicts the oldies too.

Who knows what impact it's having in the bedroom. It's probably a race to see what will wipe out humanity first - global climate change or screen-induced sexual indifference.'

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