Digital Disengagement

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Sam Martin is Senior Research Fellow and Consultant at the Wellcome Trust Ethox Centre and the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford, and the Rapid Research Evaluation Lab at University College London.Esperanza Miyake is Chancellor’s Fellow in Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Strathclyde.

• Introduction - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake1. (En)forcing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: The Racialization of Digital Disengagement and Digital Solutionism - Miyake2. Digital Engagements and Work-life Balance in Creative Labour - Sezgin3. '#RoeVsWadeOverturned: Any Idea How Fast Your #PeriodtrackingApp Can Lead to Jail?': Digital Disengagement and the Repeal of Roe vs Wade - Martin4. #SnailMailRevolution: The Networked Aesthetics of Pandemic Letter-Writing Campaigns - Butkowski5. Data Minimalism and Digital Disengagement in COVID-19 Hacktivism - Richterich6. Digital Solutionism Meets Pandemic Imaginaries - Kuntsman7. State Violence. Digital Harms and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Imagining Refusal, Resistance and Community Self-Defence - Gangaharan, Williams, Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake8. Epilogue: Digital Disengagement - Questions of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Digitalities - Kuntsman, Martin and Miyake

"This absorbing collection covers the many complexities and nuances involved in 'switching off' from digital media and devices in the pandemic age." Deborah Lupton, University of New South Wales