Slow computing : why we need balanced digital lives / Rob Kitchin and Alistair Fraser

By:

Kitchin, Rob [author]

Contributor(s):

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781529211269 (hardback)
9781529211283 (paperback)

Subject(s):

Information society -- Moral and ethical aspects

Genre/Form:

Print books.

Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleLOC classification:

HM851 .K562 2020

Contents:

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

Summary: 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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BOOKS

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Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Alfaisal University On Shelf	Alfaisal University On Shelf	HM851 .K562 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	AU00000000017936

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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