Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt-Out Button

Miyake, Esperanza and Kuntsman, Adi (2022) Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt-Out Button. University of Westminster Press, London. ISBN 9781914386336 (https://doi.org/10.16997/book61)

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Abstract

Life is increasingly governed by digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. Challenging our increasing dependence on the digital, this book raises 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', explored across six key areas of digitisation: health; citizenship; education; consumer culture; labour; and 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.

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