--- 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 title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gloria Mark ## Gloria Mark Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close 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 Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  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/"}}] ```