Kaitlyn Regehr

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.

How many times have you looked at your phone today—only to find yourself looking at something completely different ten minutes later? We’re all addicted to screens, but this book will help you set boundaries that actually work. Though we might not always choose to, we generally know how to eat healthy. Technology, like food, requires boundaries. With nutritional guidelines, a healthy digital diet is possible for all of us. Smartphone Nation will transform the way you – and your children – understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Kaitlyn Regehr – a celebrated researcher and professor of digital literacy – proposes a new, food-pyramid like framework for understanding and improving our digital consumption. She lays out how you can keep the advantages of the internet while identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you’re over-reliant. In this book, you’ll learn how to: Game the algorithm Catch misinformation Parent your children in the digital age Spot and tackle microdosing of harmful content Navigate the attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costs Improve your digital nutrition for better mental health Spring clean your viewing experience Smartphone Nation will empower you to create new tech habits for yourself, and your children. It’s essential reading for anyone who owns a smartphone, and it’s guaranteed to help you live a better life, both online and off.

This Open Access book explores how teens use social media, how they produce, consume, and share sexual images, and how they understand and respond to harmful digital sexual content and interactions. Capturing the views of nearly 500 young people across the UK our book shows how image-based sexual harassment and abuse (IBSHA) impacts all young people and is a society wide problem that needs to be urgently addressed. Developing a socio-cultural and tech affordances approach to understanding social media platform economies, we show how game-like engagement features keep users on apps and expanding their networks, opening up teens to considerable online risk and harms. We argue a lack of consent in the digital environments intersects with society-wide, age old norms of gender and sexual inequalities, facilitating image-based sexual harassment and abuse (IBSHA). Educational policy and curriculum focused on abstinence anti-sexing messaging and a focus on child pornography laws, fail to address gendered and sexualised power dynamics and peer on peer abuse. We argue a multifaceted approach is needed to improve the law, technology companies and education. Better digital literacy and sex education that covers social media use, risk, harms and reporting in platform specific ways would offer better supports for youth.

A refreshingly candid guide to gaining agency with your smartphone, filled with exercises and science-backed strategies to help you and your children become healthy and informed digital citizens in the age of the smartphone, social media and AI. How many times have you looked at your phone today? Or rather, how many times did you look at your phone to do one thing, only to find yourself looking at something completely different ten minutes later? We're all addicted to screens, but what can you do about it? Whether we like it or not, our lives and careers, as well as those of our children, will be shaped by social media, apps, and AI. In today's attention economy, our minds and our attention equal the product that is sold to advertisers. Only those who learn how to navigate our digital world effectively will thrive. Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr breaks digital consumption into an accessible structure of the food pyramid we all grew up on and frames it into five digital nutrition categories: education and learning, at the bottom of the pyramid, where the most time should be spent; creativity, including interests like reading, music, or drawing; communication with friends and family; participation, such as searching and gaming; and passive, the activities we should do the least, like doomscrolling. Smartphone Nation encourages and supports readers, showing how to: Game the algorithmCatch misinformationSpot and tackle microdosing of harmful contentNavigate the attention economy, which prioritizes engagement at all costsImprove your digital nutrition for better mental healthSpring clean your viewing experienceUplifting and inspiring, Smartphone Nation is essential reading for anyone who owns a smartphone, and it's guaranteed to help you live a better life, both online and off.

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.

Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas", The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the former League of Exotic Dancers, one of the earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, to perform their half-century-year- old routines. In this annual tradition, performers from the golden age of Las Vegas burlesque rally counter-culture neo-burlesque fans who both keep the tradition alive and add new meaning to it. Over the past five years, documentarian Kaitlyn Regehr and photographer Matilda Temperley have embedded themselves within this communitya group, which like Old Vegas itself, continues to survive and thrive sixty years past its supposed prime. Here, in a smoky, off-strip casino, they found women, at times well into their 80s, subversively bumping and grinding away preconceptions about appropriate behavior for a pensioner. This collection of interviews and photographs is drawn from the backstage dressing rooms, homes, and lives of this aging burlesque community, as well as the young neo-burlesque community who adore them. Through a range of experiencesfrom discussing struggles for wage equality, to helping stabilize an 85 year old as she steps into a sequined g-stringthe authors describe the complexity of the lives of these performers and the burlesque history from which they come. Regehr and Temperley present multidimensional portraits of this relatively untold womens history and conclude that they are at their most vital when read with all the nuances, troubles, trials, and triumphs that they formerly and currently experience.