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Living With Screens

A series on our screen-saturated society and the impact of ubiquitous technology on our daily lives.

Video

Campers talk about need for electronic devices

For some, they’re a necessity, but others feel they take away from the enjoyment of special moments.  

Tablets, iPhones, and laptops invade the family vacation

Togetherness is increasingly no match for screens of all kinds, but are the benefits of vacationing as a family lessened if each person is physically present but mentally elsewhere?By Beth Teitell

  • Video: Campers talk about need for electronic devices
  • Executives cut back on checking in from vacation
  • Special section: Living With Screens
Eileen Deignan checks on her patient while medical assistants Stina McKenna, left, and Jen Pratt take notes on iPads.

Living with screens

Clicking with your doctor

Missed connections in our digital lives

Victor Watch observes his son using an iPad. A phone may come soon.

How young is too young for a cellphone?

infographic

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Arts/Images/piechart-1209.jpg Teens and cellphone use

An infographic examining age of teen owners, usage, parents’ attitudes, texting, and calling.  

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//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2012/07/20/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/clock.jpg Beholden to screen technologies

Americans spend a considerable amount of time behind their screens, using their gadgets.  

“I often tell parents that cellphones are inanimate. It is their responsibility to make sure their children are using them the right way.”

Chet Thacker,  CEO of Code9 ­Mobile

“If teens can see what I’m writing about them, it makes them a little more engaged. They won’t think I’m writing secret thoughts into a computer.”

Dr. Larry Cohan, pediatrician 

Inside Arts & Lifestyle

The thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, showing the boat and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19, 2013.

critic’s notebook

The Marathon bombing images we can’t forget

Singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett.

Go Figure: Numbers around One Fund Concert

Carole King on May 21, 1973.

It’s never ‘Too Late’ to discover Carole King

The Tony Feher exhibit of 60 pieces is a sculptural autobiography.

Events

Boston-area to do list

The bar at Saloon in Davis Square, an establishment that has the feel of a 1920s speakeasy.

Boston’s speakeasy scene celebrates the Gatsby era

Bring the Family

Long Hill in Beverly

Last July, The Alchemist in Waterbury, Vt. announced plans to double the production of its most popular beer, the double-IPA Heady Topper.

99 bottles

Heady Topper popular as ever

essay

Do I miss my breasts?

Love Letters

Looking for a man with a plan

Michael Douglas at the piano in “Behind the Candelabra.”

Television review

Michael Douglas hits the right notes as Liberace

Maisie (Onata Aprile) and her mother, Susanna (Julianne Moore), in “What Maisie Knew.”

‘Maisie’ invites us to see the world through her eyes

Salman Rushdie.

Bringing ‘Midnight’s Children’ to screen

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