Dr. David Greenfield and the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction (CITA) are frequently in the press in regards to smartphone addiction, pornography abuse, video games, and texting & driving.
Here is some recent select press:
- ABC News Chat with Dr. Dave Greenfield
- What is antisocial about social media-revised (1)
- Kids, Teens, and Screens: Guiding the Next Generation in the Age of Tech, Apr. 14
- Can You Really Be Addicted to Your Smartphone? Experts Say Yes
- The Science Behind Cell Phone Addiction
- Smart Phones Have Changed a Generation; Get Over It (Huff Post)
- Millennial Think: G2g My Phone is Dying (The Torch)
- Don’t Drive Distracted, Wireless Industry Says, But Safety Advocates Want More Than Talk (Fair Warning)
- Are You Nomophobic? Hint: Has to Do With Smartphone Use (Palm Beach Post)
- Do We Really Need Internet Addiction Treatment Centers? (How Stuff Works)
- Five Strategies For Fighting Phone Fixation Syndrome (Forbes)Six Ways Social Media Can Ruin Your Life (Boston Globe)
- This Survey Can Tell If You’re Addicted to Your Phone (Men’s Health)
- How to Temper Smartphone Overuse (Philadelphia Tribune)
- Should You Be Concerned About Smartphone Addiction? (CNN)
- Distracted Driving Eyes As Cause For Rising Michigan Traffic Fatalities (Oakland Press)
- Are You In Love With Your Phone? (NY Times)
- The Phones We Love Too Much (NY Times)
- Teens Are Using Their Smartphones More – And Drugs Less (My9 NJ)
- Alexa is Too Sexy For Most (Fudzilla)
- Troopers to Focus Enforcement Efforts on Distracted Driving (The Sault)
- Seniors May Be As Hooked to Smartphones As Their Grandkids (How Stuff Works)
- One Text or Call Could Wreck it All (Sentinel)
- 75% of People Admit to Using a Phone While Driving; It’s Downright Addictive (CBS Detroit)
- Michigan Law Enforcement Agencies on the Lookout For Infractions (TV 6)
- Why We Can’t Put Our Smartphones Down – and What It’s Doing to Our Relationships (New Atlas)
- Why We Can’t Look Away From Our Screens (NY Times)
- Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones? (NY Times)
- It Isn’t Easy For Many to Unplug (WTAE)
- West Hartford Resident & World Renowned Expert to Speak at Community Screening of Screenagers (Patch)
- Mapping the Middle 2.0 is for Parents of Tweens (TC Palm)
- Growing Up Digital Is Topic of Talk At Mandel Greater Hartford (West Hartford News)
- Why We Text and Drive (Voice of America)
- Is It Cyber-flirting or Cyber-betrayal?(Christian Science Monitor)
- Where is Our Dependency on Hookup Apps Taking Us? (Gawker)
- Is Internet Addiction A Real Thing? (Women’s Health)
- Overplugged? Technology Addiction and Kids (Fox 25 WXFT)
- Dear Members of Congress: Matt Richtel has signed 535 Books For You (SF Gate)
- Why People Text And Drive Even When They Know It’s Dangerous (TIME)
- Survey: We Know Texting And Driving Is Dangerous, But We Still Do It (News3 WREG)
- Are You Compulsive About Texting & Driving? Survey Says…You Could Be (AT&T)
- Drivers Get A Rush From Text Messaging (Washington Post)
- The Digital Drug: What Makes You Text and Drive Despite Known Dangers (Huffington Post)
- Drivers Get A Rush From Text Messaging (Washington Post)
- It Can Wait Compulsive Survey (AT&T)
- Electronic Etiquette In the Digital Age (Huffington Post)
- Brick-and-Mortar Clinics Treat Internet Addicts (Reuters)
- Been There, Done That? 10 Signs You could Be Addicted To Your Cell Phone (Fox8)
- 22 Ways To Break Up With Your Cell Phone (BuzzFeed)
- Teen Struggle To Forgo Texts, Social Media For A Few Days (Houston Chronicle)
- Need To Unplug? There’s An App For That (Boston Globe)
- How Video Games Can Affect Adolescent Brains (Polygon)
- Viewing Porn Cuts Off Part of Brain ‘Where Decisions Are Weighed By Morality’, Says Psychologist (Christian Post)
- The Front Lines Of The Christian Battle Against Internet Porn (Vice)
- Internet and Technology Addiction With Dr. Greenfield (Radio NZ)
- What Is Nomophobia? (Business Insider)
- AT&T Brings State of the Art Simulator To Northern California In Effort To End Texting and Driving (Market Watch)
- Distracted Driving: How Can You Make A Difference? (The Paris)
- The Truly Personal Computer (The Economist)
- Are You Compulsive About Texting and Driving? AT&T DriveMode App, Now Available For iPhone, Helps Fight the Temptation (AT&T)
- Texting And Driving Kills, But Will We Stop? (USA Today)
- 5 Ways Technology Threaten your Health (Men’s Fitness)
- This Is Your Brain On Candy Crush Saga (Women’s Health)
- Is Texting As Bad As Drunken Driving? (Insurance.com)
- How To Break Your Facebook Addiction (UCONN)
- Is Your Family Overplugged? (Dr. Greene)
- You Don’t Have A Long enough Attention Span To Read This (Yahoo)
- Digital Life: Breaking Urge To Use Smartphone While Driving (USA Today)
- How Smart Phones Stress You Out (Men’s Health)
- 10 Ways Technology Can Harm Your Health (Men’s Journal)
- 13 Things You Still Don’t Know About Texting (The Street)
- Our Addiction To Cell Phones Is Costing Lives. Here’s How We Can Stop It (Huffington Post)
- Nearly Half Of Surveyed Doctors Admitted They Can’t Stop Playing Mobile Games At Work (Observer)
- When Texting Becomes An Addiction (CBS News)
- Are Drivers Getting High From Behind-The-Wheel Phone Use? (CBS News)
- Survey: Drivers “Addicted” To Using Cell Phones While Driving (12 WPRI)
- Foes Of Gay Marriage Say Speaking Out Can Make Them A Target (Times Union)
- Doctors Can’t Stop Playing Video Games At Work (The Week)
- Enough, Already! Why We all Share The Blame For Notification Overload (CNET)
- Internet Addiction Is Real (WBUR)
- Good Question: Are We Addicted To Our Cellphones? (CBS Minnesota)
- Phubbing and Texting? (VeryWell)
- Distracted At Work: Why Every Work Place Needs a Mobile Phone Policy (OHS News)
- Is Porn A Public Health Crisis? Utah May Be First State To Say Yes (Christian Science Monitor)
- You Asked: Am I Addicted To My Phone? (TIME)
- Seven Keys To Romance At Light Speed (Hartford Courant)
- Our Smartphones Should Be Enhancing Our Lives, Not Taking Them Over (Futurism)
- Should Phone Makers Take On the Texting-While-Driving Problem? (The Zebra)
- Dating App Addiction Is Real (Vice)
- How To Tell If Your Teen Is Addicted To Texting and What T0 Do About It (WRAL)
- SPECIAL REPORT: Cell Phone Addiction (CiProud)
- Addicted To Technology (Fox31 KDVR)
- Free Porn Video Websites Linked To Brain Issues Erectile dysfunctions In Science Studies (Inquisitr)
- Smart Phone Nation: Americans Now Spend Five Hours A Day – On Their Phones (Washington Post)
- Do You Overshare About Your Kids Online? (USA Today)
- Driving While Distracted: Why we can’t ignore the pings (CNN)
- Smart Phones Take Distracted Driving to a New Level (Wisconsin Public Radio)
- How Parenting Best Practices Went from Screen Time to Boundary Setting (Christian Science Monitor)
- How Do You Cope When Your Partner is Always Online (The Daily Dot)
- You Asked: Am I Addicted to My Phone (TIME)
- Smartphones Are Ruling Out Lives And Killing Our Imagination (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Uconn Researcher Helps AT&T Assess Texting Compulsion (Hartford Business)
- Are Smartphones Really So Smart? (Huffington Post)
- Smartphones Make Us Sick, No Matter How Many Health Apps We Download (Zocalo)
- How Parenting Best Practices Went From ‘Screen Time’ To Boundary Setting (Christian Science Monitor)
- How Do You Cope When Your Partner Is Always Online? (Daily Dot)
- Help Your Customers Unplug: A Call For Conscious Marketing (Relate)
- West Hartford Psychiatrist Appears In CNN Piece About Distracted Driving (We-Ha)
- Smartphones Take Distracted Driving To New Level, Expert Says (WPR)
- Where Is our Dependency on Hook-up Apps Taking Us? (Gawker)
- Psychiatrist Explains Why We Text and Drive (VOA News)
- I’m A Smartphone Addict, But I Decided To Detox (Washington Post)
- Time For a Digital Detox (DHL)
- Phone Makers Could Cut Off Drivers. So Why Don’t They? (NY Times)
- Spending Too Much Time On Your Phone? Try A Digital Detox (Wired)
- 6 Signs That It’s Time To Book A Wellness Holiday (Huffington Post)
- 7 Ways To Break Your Technology Addiction (Mental Floss)
- House Smart Kids “Tech Addiction” Episode 170 (YouTube)
- Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone? (Wisconsin Public Radio)
- Internet Addiction is Real (NPR’s On Point)
- 10 Signs You Might be Addicted to Your Smartphone (CNN)
- What is Nomophobia (Business Insider)
- The Neurological Basis for Digital Addiction (The Fix)
- Addiction to Online Pornography (NPR)
- The Internet Hinders Our Ability to Concentrate (Digital Trends)
- The Dangerous Psychology of Texting While Driving (Fox News)
- Internet Addiction (Stanford University)
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