Digital Burnout - Why our permanent use of smartphones is dangerous.
Together with his team, Professor Markowetz developed an App that documents the behaviour of 40 million smartphone users. He came to a shocking result: On average, we use our smartphone for three hours per day; we handle it 55 times in a day. We are constantly side tracked, unfocused, disrupted. In his explosive book, Alexander Markowetz seeks to answer the question – what dramatic repercussions can digital permanence have on our health, our life and our society and what can we do about it.
Alexander Markowetz was born in 1976 and studied in Marburg and New York. Since 2009, he has been a junior professor for Information Technology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, where he examined the behaviour of 300,000 smartphone users within the framework of a large-scale project.
