How can we achieve digital justice in the age of COVID-19?
This book explores how the pandemic has transformed our use and perception of digital technologies in various settings. It also examines the right to resist or reject these technologies and the politics of refusal in different contexts and scenarios.
The book offers a timely and original analysis of the new realities and challenges of digital technologies, paving the way for a post-COVID-19 future.
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"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 "This book takes a broader perspective on the political economy of digitality, culture, legal frameworks, and everyday actions, challenging the Western-centric approach and aiming to provide a more inclusive understanding of digital disengagement." Mutlu Binark, Hacettepe University
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
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 Chancellors Fellow in Journalism, Media and Communication at the University of Strathclyde.
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