Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive,
destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and
invading privacy. In this book, Trine Syvertsen explores the
phenomenon of digital detox: users taking a break from digital media
or adopting measures to limit smartphone and social media use. Based
on studies, documents, media texts and interviews with media users,
Syvertsen discusses how media industries intensify the quest for
attention, how companies and governments team up to get everybody
online, and how the main responsibility for managing online risks and
problems are placed on the users' shoulders. She provides a rich
account of how users reduce their online engagement through
time-limitations, restrictions on smartphone use, productivity apps,
and use of analogue media. Syvertsen shows how digital detoxing has
much in common with other forms of self-help such as mindfulness,
decluttering and simple living and places digital detox within a
culture of self-optimisation. But digital detox is also about
sustaining face-to-face conversations, better work-life-balance, a
deeper connection with nature and more meaningful interpersonal
relationships. With a wealth of examples, analyses and stories,
Digital Detox is a valuable guide to why digital detox and
disconnection has become a topic, how it is practised, what it says
about the state of media industries and how people express resistance
in the 21st century.
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ISBN
9781787693418
Publisert
2020
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Emerald Publishing Limited
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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