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dc.contributor.authorKuntsman, Adi
dc.contributor.authorMiyake, Esperanza
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-12T15:19:06Z
dc.date.available2022-10-12T15:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58588
dc.description.abstractLife is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. However, the reasons, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital, this book raises a set of provocative and urgent questions: in a world of compulsory digitality is there an opt out button? Where, when, how, why and to whom is it available? Answering these questions has become even more relevant since the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the book puts forward the concept of ‘digital disengagement’ which is explored across six key areas of digitisation: health; citizenship; education; consumer culture; labour; and the environment. Part I examines the difficulty of opting out of compulsory digitality in a world where most things are digital by default. From health apps, algorithmic decision-making to learning analytics, opting out comes with a set of troubling consequences. Part II turns to several examples of disconnection and disengagement. The chapters reveal how phenomena like digital detoxes, time-management apps and online ‘green’ spaces are co-opted by the very digital systems one is trying to resist. The book critiques issues relating to digital surveillance, algorithmic discrimination and biased tech, corporatisation and monetisation of data, exploitative digital labour, digitalised self-discipline and destruction of the environment. As an interdisciplinary piece of work, the book will be useful to any scholar and activist in Digital, Internet and Social Media Studies; Digital Sociology and Social Policy; Digital Health; Media, Popular and Communication Studies; Consumer culture; and Environment Studies.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UD Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guidesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YP Educational material::YPJ Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general::YPJJ Educational: Social sciences, social studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UD Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides::UDB Internet guides and online servicesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industriesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Y Children’s, Teenage and Educational::YN Children’s / Teenage: General interest::YNT Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science and technologyen_US
dc.subject.otherPlatform Society; Digital Disengagement; Digital Abolition; COVID-19 Pandemic; Data Rights and Data Justice; Digital Capitalismen_US
dc.titleParadoxes of Digital Disengagementen_US
dc.title.alternativeIn Search of the Opt-Out Buttonen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.16997/book61en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2725c638-53f3-4872-9824-99c3555366f3en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781914386329en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781914386343en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781914386350en_US
oapen.pages182en_US
oapen.place.publicationLondonen_US


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