Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting, Paperback

Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, this book explores the digital detox phenomenon and the politics of disconnection from invasive media. With a wealth of examples, Syvertsen demonstrates how self-regulation online is practiced and delves into how it has also become an expression of resistance in the 21st century.
Providing a rich account of how users reduce their online engagement through time-limitations, restrictions on smartphone use, productivity apps, and use of analogue media, the author reveals how the practice of digital detoxing goes beyond a growing culture of self-help.

Trine Syvertsen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on topics of online media, television, media policy and media history, and is an expert on media resistance.