Resources for publishers
Related book titles
Talking Back to Facebook (James Steyer, Scribner, 2012)
Parenting for the Digital Age (Bill Ratner, Familius, 2014)
Geek Dad (Ken Denmead, Gotham, 2010)
Raising Digital Families for Dummies (Amy Lupold Bair, John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
iRules (Janell Burley Hoffman, Rodale, 2014)
Media Moms & Digital Dads (Yalda T. Uhls, Bibliomotion, forthcoming in 2015)
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Social Media (Mark Oestreicher and Adam McClane, Simply Youth Ministry, 2012)
Plugged-in Parenting, Screens and Teens (Bob Waliszewski, Focus on the Family, 2011)
Growing Up Social (Gary D. Chapman, Northfield Publishing, 2014)
Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Digital World (Kathy Koch, Moody Publishers, 2015)
The Big Disconnect (Catherine Steiner-Adair, Harper, 2013)
Alone Together (Sherry Turkle, Basic Books, 2011)
The App Generation (Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, Yale University Press, 2013)
Disconnected (Carrie James, MIT Press, 2014)
It’s Complicated (danah boyd, Yale University Press, 2014)
Grown Up Digital (Don Tapscott, McGraw-Hill Education, 2008)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Amy Chua, Penguin, 2011)
Bringing Up Bébé (Pamela Druckerman, Penguin, 2012)
How Children Succeed (Paul Tough, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
Selected publications
Your weakest security link? Your children
for The Wall Street Journal
Don’t unfriend mom, just rein her in a bit
for The Toronto Star
Is an iPad Right for Your Family?
for Oprah.com
Thank Your Mom — She Taught You How To Tech
for The Atlantic.com
Foreword: The Truth of Motherhood Online
in Motherhood Online (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)
Conquering Digital Distraction
for The Harvard Business Review
Work Smarter with Social Media: A Guide to Managing Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn and Your Email
Harvard Business Review Press, 2015
‘Plug In Better’: A Manifesto
for The Atlantic.com & featured in The Best Atlantic Technology Writing 2012
Your Employee is a Social Media Celebrity. Now What Do You Do?
for The Wall Street Journal
Dear Colleague, Put the Notebook Down
for The Harvard Business Review blog
Selected clippings
Digital families and relationships
Is Your Child Your Biggest Cybersecurity Threat?
Wall Street Journal Live (video), April 20, 2015
Lulu app stirs controversy: Dating intelligence for girls or ‘unacceptable surveillance’?
The Vancouver Sun, February 20, 2014
When Social Media and Relationships Mix, It’s Complicated
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday (audio), February 10, 2013
Is the Internet making us more lonely or less lonely? Yes.
GigaOm, April 23, 2012
Doomed or Lucky? Predicting the Future of the Internet Generation
KQED Mindshift, February 29, 2012
Let’s Nix the Phrase “In Real Life” — and Take Online Relationships Seriously
Slate, January 9, 2012
Photo filchers fuel Facebook fears
The Globe and Mail, April 26, 2010
Craigslist’s Missed Connections helps couples find love
The Toronto Star, February 15, 2011
iPhone apps emerge as newest electronic pacifier
CBC News, December 1, 2009
Other coverage
You’re Using the Internet Wrong: Here’s How to Finally Eliminate Digital Distractions
Feature on Work Smarter with Social Media in Fast Company, June 22, 2015
Why Distractions From Email and Social Media are a $1 Trillion Problem
Inc., June 18, 2015
Bribe Yourself To Get Things Done With Concurrent Rewards
New York Magazine, February 2, 2015
What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You About Your Customers
Forbes, December 12, 2014
Study highlights gap between social media’s likers and ‘lurkers’
The Globe and Mail, December 9, 2014
5 (Relatively Painless) Ways to Make Friends with Your Email Inbox
Fast Company, March 18, 2014
5 Email Mistakes That Are Basically Killing You
Time, March 17, 2014
Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest ‘Drive As Much In Store Purchasing As Online Purchasing’
Business Insider, June 27, 2013
How to Use Evernote to Organize Your Workflow
Fast Company, February 27, 2013
Learning proper ‘netiquette’ with social media maven Alexandra Samuel
The Madeleine Brand Show on KPCC (audio), July 10, 2012
Q&A With the Creators of TweetTheResults.ca
The National Post, May 2, 2011
About Alexandra Samuel
Dr. Alexandra Samuel is an independent technology researcher, strategist, and writer. She is the author of Work Smarter with Social Media: A Guide to Managing Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn and Your Email (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015) and is represented as a speaker by the Lavin Agency.
Alexandra is the former VP Social Media for Vision Critical, and was the founding director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University. Alex also co-founded Social Signal, one of the world’s first social media agencies. A regular blogger for the Harvard Business Review, she has also been a regular contributor to publications like the Wall Street Journal, TheAtlantic.com and Oprah.com.
Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, where her dissertation examined hacktivism as a window on digital participation. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, she now lives in Vancouver.