About the seminar
In this seminar, Katie Day Good will explore the unequal landscape of opportunities to disconnect from digital technologies in schools.
Discussing emerging youth- and teacher-led movements in the U.S. to refuse and restrict the use of certain educational and social media technologies in schools, Good will highlight educational institutions as primary sites of struggle over technological influence and user agency in the digital era.
She argues that technology refusal is an important conceptual addition to digital literacy education and scholarship.
The second presenter is Mehri Agai, who will present research on youth disconnection practices. Agai will unpack the intricate ways disconnection is woven into the fabric of daily digital navigation for young people. Through an emic approach, utilizing digital diaries, she will demonstrate how personal records can provide insight into the subtle complexities of digital disconnection.
The time and date for the seminar is December 5, 1400-1500 (Norwegian time)
Participants
- Katie Day Good (miamioh.edu) is Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
- Mehri Agai (uib.no) is a PhD candidate at Dept of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen.
- Karin Fast (digitox) will chair the seminar.
About the digitox seminar series
- Digitox welcomes academics and students to digital seminars, usually monthly.
- If you are interested in attending, please send an email to Trine Syvertsen to get info on mailing lists and zoom links.
- The format is usually two short presentations, one from an invited guest and one from the Digitox project.
- We allow time for discussion and questions.
- We also welcome you to share information about upcoming and current publications and events pertaining to disconnection and detox.