About the seminar
- Kristoffer Albris introduces The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection (forthcoming, Nordicom, details below).
- The presentation is followed by a conversation about the digital backlash and disconnection in the Nordic countries with Stine Lomborg (Denmark), Linus Andersson (Sweden) and Mehri Agai (Norway).
The time and date for the seminar is June 12th, 1300-1400 (Norwegian time)
Participants
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Kristoffer Albris is an associate professor at The Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) and the Department of Anthropology.
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Stine Lomborg, Professor at the University of Copenhagen
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Linus Andersson, Associate professor at Halmstad University
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Mehri Agai, PhD candidate at the University of Bergen.
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Trine Syvertsen (digitox, uio.no) will chair the panel conversation
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Karin Fast (digitox, Karlstad University) will chair the seminar
About the book
The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection
- The digital backlash can best be described as a kind of “Zeitgeist”: as a moment in history in which the norms about digital behaviour, consumption, and habits are being questioned, and where the hype of early the digital era beginning in the 1990s, are being challenged.
- Through calls for more restrictive, or more ‘mindful’, uses of digital technologies, ‘mobile-free’ schools, work regulations along the lines of a ‘Right to Disconnect’ framework, the rise of new entrepreneurs in the growing ‘digital detox’ industry, as well as critiques of the role of Big Tech companies – society is deliberating on the stakes of the digital for the human condition.
- This book offers a collection of empirical and theoretical analyses of the digital backlash as it manifests across national, institutional, and everyday contexts.
- To be published open access by Nordicom this summer/early autumn.
- Edited by: Kristoffer Albris, Karin Fast, Faltin Karlsen, Anne Kaun, Stine Lomborg and Trine Syvertsen
- Chapters by: Rasmus Helles, Stine Lomborg, Karin Fast, Trine Syvertsen, Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Kristoffer Albris, Linus Andersson, Ingrid Forsler, Carina Guyard, Gunn Enli, Yukun You, Sne Scott Hansen, Maja Klausen, Alessandro Gandini, Victoria Andelsman Alvarez, Mehri Agai, Lucas Cone, Signe Sophus Lai, Faltin Karlsen, André Jansson, Ana Jorge, Kari Spjeldnæs.
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.