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Douglas Rushkoff’s new series of stressors

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Narrative collapse; Digiphrenia; Overwinding; Fractalnoia

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Narrative collapse

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Too much attention on the present moment prevents people from getting a clear perspective on their lives; love events reduced to myopic tweets & updates

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Digiphrenia

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The tacit permission to be in more than one place at a time with a variety of social media

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Overwinding

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The ability to reduce big-time scales into small ones (as a result, getting less done)

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Fractalnoia

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The anxiety associated with rapid media grazing and jumping to conclusions with incomplete information in the absence of cause and effect perspective

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Future shock by Alvin Toffler

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Describes the stress that accompanies a proliferation of technology, urban sprawl, and a glut of info on the Internet

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Sociology

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The study of human social behavior within families, organization, and institutions; the study of the individual in relationship to society as a whole

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Technostress

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The overwhelming frustrations of sensory bombardment and poor boundaries that result from the plethora of technological gadgets, p. 33

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Shallow effect

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A shallow understanding of complicated issues that is caused by info grazing; jumping from site to site and cherry-picking info compromises one’s ability to concentrate or focus on something long enough to fully understand all its implications.

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Aspects of Technostress

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Information overload; Cyber bullying; Identity theft; Cyber hacking; Bandwidth and cloud issues; Boundaries; Privacy; Ethics; Less family time; Computer dating; WiFi stress; Technology and the generational divide (p. 35)

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Civility

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The practice of good manners and appropriate behavior

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Environmental disconnect

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A state in which people have distanced themselves so much from the natural environment that they cannot fathom the magnitude of their impact on it

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Nature deficit disorder

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A term coined by Richard Louv to describe a now-common behavior (affliction) where people (particularly children) simply don’t get outside enough, hence losing touch with the natural world and all of its wonder.

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Effects of global warming

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violent storms, hotter summers, intense droughts, severe weather patterns, dependence on oil, water shortages

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Causes of water shortages

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weather, fracking, rapid population growth, increased energy demands, farming irrigation demands, depleted aquifers, limited water supplies

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What is the “sixth mass extinction”?

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Loss of biodiversity in our modern era

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Occupational stress

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job-related stress, which often comes from occupation duties for which people perceive themselves as having a great deal of responsibility, yet little or no authority or decision-making latitude

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Lipton’s model of holism

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where all parts are respected and come together for a greater purpose

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Reasons for “job-stress”

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low pay, unreasonable workloads, annoying co-workers, poor work-life balance, fear of being laid off (p. 41)

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Signs of job-stress

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burnout, absenteeism, presenteeism (p. 40)

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Definition of stress

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The experience of a perceived threat to one’s mental, physical, or spiritual well-being, resulting from a series of physiological responses and adaptations

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Superstress, or “future shock”

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The inability to cope with an overwhelming amount of change

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Results of social stress

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Decline in social etiquette, a lack of civility, environmental disconnect

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Concept of sociology of stress

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“social networking” or the stress that results due to our inability to keep up with all the changes that influence the many social aspects of our lives

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Ways society can alleviated race and gender stress

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Anti-bullying programs; TV programming using various ethnicities to “better reflect the demographics of American society”; rise above bias and prejudice and take the high road

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New social stressors

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rapid acceleration of technology (software upgrades to Internet downloads), use of & addiction to World Wide Web & its social media outlets, proliferation of smartphones and WiFi devices, an accessible 24/7 society, global economic woes, global terrorism, carbon footprints, public health issues; eroded personal boundaries