Slow computing: why we need balanced digital lives

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and prof...

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Beteiligte Personen: Kitchin, Rob 1970- (VerfasserIn), Fraser, Alistair 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bristol Bristol University Press 2020
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Links:https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529211276
https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529211276
https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529211276
https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529211276
Zusammenfassung:Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice 'slow computing', but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing, but to do so in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy over our time and data? Drawing on the ideas of the 'slow movement', Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.
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Living Digital Lives -- Accelerating Life -- Monitoring Life -- Personal Strategies of Slow Computing -- Slow Computing Collectively -- An Ethics of Digital Care -- Towards a More Balanced Digital Society -- Coda: Slow Computing During a Pandemic -- Notes -- Index
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 212 Seiten)
ISBN:9781529211276
DOI:10.46692/9781529211276