Digital Downsize: Re-thinking our relationship with the digital world

The undisputed power of digital technology increasingly controls the way that we live: how we communicate, work and socialise. Alongside the tremendous opportunities that digital technology brings, concerns are growing about problems ranging from cyber-crime to behavioural programming, addiction and isolation. Digital Downsize is a wide-ranging introduction to some of these issues. Looking particularly at the impact of social media and other digital communications, it examines topics including: •How psychology and behaviour is modified by digi-tech•The impact on relationships, skills and social resilience•Living and working in an 'always-on' environment As people's relationship with the online world continues to evolve, and we become increasingly engulfed and mesmerised by its promise, are we using technology wisely-and do we care? This book explores these questions, and looks how young people, in particular, may be affected. Digital Downsize promotes a different sort of relationship between people and digiital technology: one where people use technology in a more 'aware' and balanced way. It ends by offering practical suggestions for how to optimise the way that digi-tech is used, so that it enhances, rather than detracts from, quality of life. This is an accessible book that should make all of us sit back and think about our present and future relationship with digital technology in a post Covid-19 world.