Slow Computing
Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 2020
224 pages
978-1-5292-1128-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
0,97 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-1128-3 (9781529211283)
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Book
09/2020
1st Edition
Bristol University Press
€26.80
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Persons
Rob Kitchin is a Professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, Ireland. He is author/editor of a number of books about technology and society, and is a recipient of the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for the Social Sciences.
Alistair Fraser is a Lecturer in Geography in Maynooth University, Ireland. His research engages diverse themes, including rural change, food, music, and digital life.
Alistair Fraser is a Lecturer in Geography in Maynooth University, Ireland. His research engages diverse themes, including rural change, food, music, and digital life.
Content
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
Accelerating Life
Monitoring Life
Personal Strategies of Slow Computing
Slow Computing Collectively
An Ethics of Digital Care
Towards a More Balanced Digital Society
