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Digital Disengagement

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How can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19? This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines t...
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  • 22 August 2023
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How can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19?

This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios.

The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.

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Price: $67.95
Pages: 196
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
ISBN: 9781529234657
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Control, privacy and safety in society, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Communication studies, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments
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"This absorbing collection covers the many complexities and nuances involved in 'switching off' from digital media and devices in the pandemic age." Deborah Lupton, University of New South Wales

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sam Martin is Senior Research Fellow and Consultant at the Wellcome Trust Ethox Centre and the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford, and the Rapid Research Evaluation Lab at University College London.

Esperanza Miyake is Chancellor’s Fellow in Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Strathclyde.

Introduction - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake

1. (En)forcing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Racialization of Digital Disengagement and Digital Solutionism - Miyake

2. Digital Engagements and Work-life Balance in Creative Labour - Sezgin

3. '#RoeVsWadeOverturned: Any Idea How Fast Your #PeriodtrackingApp Can Lead to Jail?': Digital Disengagement and the Repeal of Roe vs Wade - Martin

4. #SnailMailRevolution: The Networked Aesthetics of Pandemic Letter-Writing Campaigns - Butkowski

5. Data Minimalism and Digital Disengagement in COVID-19 Hacktivism - Richterich

6. Digital Solutionism Meets Pandemic Imaginaries - Kuntsman

7. State Violence. Digital Harms and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Imagining Refusal, Resistance and Community Self-Defence - Gangaharan, Williams, Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake

8. Epilogue: Digital Disengagement - Questions of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Digitalities - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake