Digital Detox
Digital Detox Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy. Based on studies, documents, media…
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Digital Detox
Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy. 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. 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.
Syvertsen shows how digital detoxing has much in common with other forms of 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.