03328nam a2200469Ii 4500 9781787693418 UtOrBLW 20251029120122.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 200416t20202020enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781787693418 UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW HM851 .S98 2020 SOC071000 bisacsh JFFP bicssc 304 Syvertsen, Trine, author. 58540 Digital detox : the politics of disconnecting / authored by Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo, Norway). Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (168 pages) ; cm. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier SocietyNow Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. 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. 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. Print version record. Digital media Political aspects. 58541 Internet addiction Social aspects. 58542 Digital media Social aspects. 58543 Social Science, Technology Studies. bisacsh 58544 Social interaction. bicssc 57403 9781787693425 SocietyNow. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781787693395 51253 51253