Slow Computing: Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives

by Rob Kitchin and Alistair Fraser

Book Overview

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice 'slow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529211263
• ISBN13: 9781529211269
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"