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The Digital Back Lash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection
“The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices of
digital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologies
and 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, the
rise of new entrepreneurs in the growing “digital detox” industry, as well
as critiques of the role of Big Tech – society is deliberating on the stakes
of the digital for the human condition.
The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of zeitgeist: a moment
in history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, and
habits are being questioned, and where the early hype of the digital era
beginning in the 1990s is being challenged. This edited volume offers a
collection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as it
manifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts.
The contributions span analyses of discourses and public debates around
disconnection and the so-called techlash, the ambiguities and tensions of
digital connectivity for work, labour, and productivity, the reordering of
family and school life along with the perceived negative consequences of
digital connectivity for the well-being of children and young people, as
well as the playful and sometimes subversive recreational practices that
people reinvent in search of authenticity as a response to all things digital.
A distinct focus is placed on social practices and dilemmas related to new
ways that people adapt to, appropriate, and push back against digital
technologies in everyday life.
digital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologies
and 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, the
rise of new entrepreneurs in the growing “digital detox” industry, as well
as critiques of the role of Big Tech – society is deliberating on the stakes
of the digital for the human condition.
The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of zeitgeist: a moment
in history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, and
habits are being questioned, and where the early hype of the digital era
beginning in the 1990s is being challenged. This edited volume offers a
collection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as it
manifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts.
The contributions span analyses of discourses and public debates around
disconnection and the so-called techlash, the ambiguities and tensions of
digital connectivity for work, labour, and productivity, the reordering of
family and school life along with the perceived negative consequences of
digital connectivity for the well-being of children and young people, as
well as the playful and sometimes subversive recreational practices that
people reinvent in search of authenticity as a response to all things digital.
A distinct focus is placed on social practices and dilemmas related to new
ways that people adapt to, appropriate, and push back against digital
technologies in everyday life.
388 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2024
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