--- title: Gloria Mark | TIME description: Mark, PhD, is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine and author of Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity. Receiving her PhD from Columbia University in psychology, Dr. Mark studies how our minds and behavior have changed with the rise of digital media use canonical: https://time.com/author/gloria-mark/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/gloria-mark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gloria Mark ## Gloria Mark Mark, PhD, is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine and author of [_Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity_](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/attention-span-gloria-mark?variant=40346590117922)_._ Receiving her PhD from Columbia University in psychology, Dr. Mark studies how our minds and behavior have changed with the rise of digital media use ## Gloria Mark *  Feb 11, 2023 ### [Doing Nothing Can Make You More Productive](https://time.com/6254135/doing-nothing-more-productive/) Screens are leaving us all exhausted. Creating time where you do nothing can help, writes Gloria Mar... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/gloria-mark/","name":"Gloria Mark"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/gloria-mark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/gloria-mark/"},"name":"Gloria Mark","jobTitle":null,"description":"Mark, PhD, is Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine and author of Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity. Receiving her PhD from Columbia University in psychology, Dr. Mark studies how our minds and behavior have changed with the rise of digital media use","url":"https://time.com/author/gloria-mark/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```