Smartphone Nation

Smartphone Nation

Building Digital Boundaries When Offline Isn't an Option

About the Book

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.
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Praise for Smartphone Nation

Smartphone Nation delivers eye-opening guidance on how we use our phones, and how we help our kids navigate tech. With clarity, insight, and real compassion, Regher shows you how to set thoughtful, sustainable boundaries and reshape your family’s relationship with devices. We didn’t grow up with this tech—and neither did our pediatricians. This is the modern digital survival guide every parent needs.”—Melissa Urban, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries

Smartphone Nation is essential reading for anyone looking to rethink their family's relationship with technology. This urgent exploration of how smartphones shape childhood, mental health, and society cuts through fear and confusion with clear research and real-life stories. Most importantly, it demystifies the algorithms driving our digital world and equips us with the practical tools needed to build a healthier, happier future for ourselves and our kids.”—Daisy Greenwell, co-founder of Smartphone-Free Childhood UK
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About the Author

Kaitlyn Regehr, PhD
Dr. Kaitlyn Regehr is a world-renowned expert on the cultural impacts of social media. She’s an Associate Professor and the Program Director of Digital Humanities at University College London. Dr. Regehr 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 is a prominent voice in the media, a key influence in public policy circles, and a mother of two. More by Kaitlyn Regehr, PhD
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