• Contact

  • Newsletter

  • About us

  • Delivery options

  • Prospero Book Market Podcast

  • Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

    Digital Detox by Syvertsen, Trine;

    The Politics of Disconnecting

    Series: SocietyNow;

      • Publisher's listprice GBP 17.99
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        8 594 Ft (8 185 Ft + 5% VAT)

    8 594 Ft

    db

    Availability

    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
    Not in stock at Prospero.

    Why don't you give exact delivery time?

    Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.

    Product details:

    • Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
    • Date of Publication 30 March 2020

    • ISBN 9781787693425
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages168 pages
    • Size 198x129x13 mm
    • Weight 258 g
    • Language English
    • 79

    Categories

    Short description:

    Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon and the politics of disconnection from invasive media. With a wealth of examples, the book demonstrates how self-regulation online is practiced and delves into how it has also become an expression of resistance in the 21st century.

    More

    Long description:

    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.



    ?Trine Syvertsen has again fascinated us with a reflexive and nuanced discussion of our guilt-ridden and ambivalent engagement with digital media. Situating the phenomenon of digital detox in the much longer history of media resistance, and its roots in the perceived pervasiveness of digital personal and mobile media, Syvertsen discusses how ?the problem? is framed, who is held responsible for solving it (spoiler: you!), what ?solutions? are offered, and how these are received among digital media users. A must-read for anyone who has ever owned a smart-phone!?

    More

    Table of Contents:

    Chapter 1. Introduction: Do we have a problem? 

    Chapter 2. What is the problem? Intensifying the quest for attention 
    Chapter 3. You are the problem! Everybody online and self-regulation  

    Chapter 4. Managing the problem. Disconnection and detox 

    Chapter 5. The problem is personal - and social: Making sense of digital detox

    More