#digitaldisconnection — Public Fediverse posts

We used to talk about "#DigitalNatives", but now it looks like #DigitalDisconnection is a thing.

https://www.kingstrustglobal.org/digital-disconnection

This recent report suggests in the UK 25.1% of young people don't have digital skills.

Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

I’m a little frustrated I can’t find information about how the sample (n=1,293) was recruited but I can’t stop thinking about this finding from BSI research:

This is crying out for qualitative follow up? Do they try and realise this in their own technology use? Does this necessarily lead them to try and reduce their internet use? What barriers do they face in reducing their internet use? Do they have sources of support and insight in such an undertaking? There’s certainly evidence of a desire for support:

Over a quarter (27%) argue phones should be banned in schools – something many campaigners and politicians across the spectrum are calling for – and half back recently suggested ideas of a social media curfew where platforms are inaccessible after a certain time in the evening. A fifth (22%) say their lives would be better without access to online gaming

How can quitting be incorporated into media literacy training? This seems like a good place to start.

#digitalDisconnection #disconnection #internet #mediaLiteracy #phones #sociologyOfYouth #youth

Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

I’m a little frustrated I can’t find information about how the sample (n=1,293) was recruited but I can’t stop thinking about this finding from BSI research:

This is crying out for qualitative follow up? Do they try and realise this in their own technology use? Does this necessarily lead them to try and reduce their internet use? What barriers do they face in reducing their internet use? Do they have sources of support and insight in such an undertaking? There’s certainly evidence of a desire for support:

Over a quarter (27%) argue phones should be banned in schools – something many campaigners and politicians across the spectrum are calling for – and half back recently suggested ideas of a social media curfew where platforms are inaccessible after a certain time in the evening. A fifth (22%) say their lives would be better without access to online gaming

How can quitting be incorporated into media literacy training? This seems like a good place to start.

#digitalDisconnection #disconnection #internet #mediaLiteracy #phones #sociologyOfYouth #youth

Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

I’m a little frustrated I can’t find information about how the sample (n=1,293) was recruited but I can’t stop thinking about this finding from BSI research:

This is crying out for qualitative follow up? Do they try and realise this in their own technology use? Does this necessarily lead them to try and reduce their internet use? What barriers do they face in reducing their internet use? Do they have sources of support and insight in such an undertaking? There’s certainly evidence of a desire for support:

Over a quarter (27%) argue phones should be banned in schools – something many campaigners and politicians across the spectrum are calling for – and half back recently suggested ideas of a social media curfew where platforms are inaccessible after a certain time in the evening. A fifth (22%) say their lives would be better without access to online gaming

How can quitting be incorporated into media literacy training? This seems like a good place to start.

#digitalDisconnection #disconnection #internet #mediaLiteracy #phones #sociologyOfYouth #youth

Den 22. August udkom min bog om de forskellige taktikker som forskellige aktører benytter sig af, for at beskytte sig mod digitaliseringens negative effekter på forhold som fx produktivitet, autenticitet, bæredygtighed m.m. I lang tid var arbejdstitlen “Introduktion til ‘Digital Disconnection Studies‘” da den prøver at formidle hvordan forskere forholder sig til digital modstand i dens forskellige afskygninger. Den del af sagen, endte dog med kun at fylde en 1/3 af bogen. Første del handler om de teoretiske kilder til overvurderingen af det digitale, og den sidste del handler om forskellige fejlslutninger der ofte optræder i offentlige debatter om digitalisering.

Jeg kan ikke vurdere om mine ambitioner med bogen er blevet indfriet 100%, dvs. om den hænger sammen, om jeg er præcis og sammenhængende nok, om jeg har taget for lidt eller for meget med – men jeg er meget tilfreds med analysen af det store billede. Hvis bogen var en maleri, ville den være et stort landskabsmaleri (i modsætning til et hyperrealistisk portræt).

Bogen kan bestilles på Hogrefes hjemmeside.

https://jesperbalslev.dk/digitaliseringens-brudte-lofter-om-at-saette-graenser-for-toksisk-teknologi/

#2024 #dansk #DigitalDisconnection #hogrefe #jesperBalslev

There is a long list of interesting pre- and post-conferences to #ica23, and some are still accepting abstracts. If I was planning to go to Toronto I would be torn between attending these two, both arranged by such nice and smart scholars:

Key themes in disconnection research - deadline Jan 20th
https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/events/conferences/-ica-preconference-toronto-key-themes-in-digital-disconnection-studies.html

News avoidance, resistance, and related audience practices - deadline Jan 27th
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-avoidance-resistance-and-related-audience-practices-definitions-predictors-and-consequences

#commodon #DigitalDisconnection #NewsAvoidance

My upcoming book now has a website: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life will be published by Emerald in February 2023. The whole ebook will be #openaccess!

https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/media-use-in-digital-everyday-life/?k=9781802623864

This book has been fun and difficult to write, and I am so excited it will soon be out there in the world. About #smartphones, #socialmedia, #news, #crossmedia, #mediarepertoires, #digitaldisconnection from a #qualitative #everyday perspective.

#commodon #mediastudies

A #commodon #introduction: I am a professor of #mediastudies doing qualitative audience research. With my colleagues in Bergen Media Use Research Group I have studied cross-media use and public connection in Norway. Then projects on #digitaldisconnection, #newsavoidance, #doomscrolling, media and #climatechange. Interested in #algorithms, #datafication and #smartphones, from a user perspective. My new book Media Use in Digital Everyday Life will be published #openaccess by Emerald in 2023.