Ep. 7 - Mark Bauerlein, Author Of "Dumbest Generation: How Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans"

Mark Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English at UCLA in 1988 & has taught at Emory since 1989, with a two-and-a-half year break in 2003-05 to serve as the Director, Office of Research & Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, TLS, and Chronicle of Higher Education. His latest book, "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30), is available for purchase online at https://www.amazon.com/Dumbest-Generation-Stupefies-Americans-Jeopardizes/dp/1585427128 Along the same topics, Mark also wrote “The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking” available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1585428868/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_eiAOzbG3FFNNX Find more info on Mark Bauerlein at http://english.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/faculty_pages/bauerlein.html On each episode of the Technology For Mindfulness Podcast, Robert Plotkin, co-creator of the “Hack Your Mind” series at MIT, explores the intersection between the practice of mindfulness & the use of technology in the modern age. Show notes can be found at TechnologyForMindfulness.com/, & you can also follow the show at Twitter.com/TechForMindful & Facebook.com/TechnologyForMindfulness/. Come back often & feel free to subscribe in iTunes or add the Technology For Mindfulness Podcast to your favorite podcast application. Follow us on: Twitter.com/TechForMindful Facebook.com/TechnologyForMindfulness Subscribe to the Technology For Mindfulness Podcast via: iTunes: apple.co/2opAqpn Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/robert-plotkin/technology-for-mindfulness SoundCloud: @technologyformindfulness TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Technology-For-Mindfulness-p963257/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCadmsqRjuiilNT5bwHFHDfQ RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/TechnologyForMindfulness Music courtesy of Tobu - Colors [NCS Release] https://youtu.be/MEJCwccKWG0 http://www.7obu.com http://www.soundcloud.com/7obu http://www.facebook.com/tobuofficial http://www.twitter.com/tobuofficial http://www.youtube.com/tobuofficial -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com