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NEW STORY: Over half of Britons are sleep deprived #mobiledevicestoblame?

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Just reading this story in the Huffington Post:

Over half of Britons are sleep deprived new research has revealed, and computers, tablets and smartphones are partly to blame.

A survey indicates that more than 28 million people in the UK – almost six in ten of the population – are regularly getting no more than seven hours sleep a night.

It also shows that 78% of Britons are exposed to sleep-disruptive blue light from computer devices before going to bed.

Among 18 to 24-year-olds included in the 2,149 adults questioned, this figure rose to an astonishing 91%.

I’ve just spoken to Real Radio, so tomorrow from around 6am, I’ll appear on news bulletins responding to this story – along with Smooth and Capital radio.

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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