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Description:“The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices ofdigital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologiesand platforms in the world today. Through calls for more restrictive,or more “mindful”, uses of digital technologies, “mobile-free” schools,work regulations along the lines of a “right to disconnect” framework, therise of new entrepreneurs in the growing “digital detox” industry, as wellas critiques of the role of Big Tech – society is deliberating on the stakesof the digital for the human condition.The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of zeitgeist: a momentin history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, andhabits are being questioned, and where the early hype of the digital erabeginning in the 1990s is being challenged. This edited volume offers acollection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as itmanifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts.The contributions span analyses of discourses and public debates arounddisconnection and the so-called techlash, the ambiguities and tensions ofdigital connectivity for work, labour, and productivity, the reordering offamily and school life along with the perceived negative consequences ofdigital connectivity for the well-being of children and young people, aswell as the playful and sometimes subversive recreational practices thatpeople reinvent in search of authenticity as a response to all things digital.A distinct focus is placed on social practices and dilemmas related to newways that people adapt to, appropriate, and push back against digitaltechnologies in everyday life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Digital Back Lash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection. To get started finding The Digital Back Lash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 388

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg

Release: 2024

ISBN: 9188855961

Description: “The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices ofdigital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologiesand platforms in the world today. Through calls for more restrictive,or more “mindful”, uses of digital technologies, “mobile-free” schools,work regulations along the lines of a “right to disconnect” framework, therise of new entrepreneurs in the growing “digital detox” industry, as wellas critiques of the role of Big Tech – society is deliberating on the stakesof the digital for the human condition.The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of zeitgeist: a momentin history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, andhabits are being questioned, and where the early hype of the digital erabeginning in the 1990s is being challenged. This edited volume offers acollection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as itmanifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts.The contributions span analyses of discourses and public debates arounddisconnection and the so-called techlash, the ambiguities and tensions ofdigital connectivity for work, labour, and productivity, the reordering offamily and school life along with the perceived negative consequences ofdigital connectivity for the well-being of children and young people, aswell as the playful and sometimes subversive recreational practices thatpeople reinvent in search of authenticity as a response to all things digital.A distinct focus is placed on social practices and dilemmas related to newways that people adapt to, appropriate, and push back against digitaltechnologies in everyday life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Digital Back Lash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection. To get started finding The Digital Back Lash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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