Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button

Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake

London: University of Westminster Press (2022), 167 pp.

Contains index

ISBN 978-1-914386-33-6 (pdf); 978-1-914386-32-9 (print)

Introduction, 1
PART I: WHERE IS THE OPT-OUT? 19
1 Digital Health: Data Traps at Our Fingertips, 21
2 Automated Governance: Digital Citizenship in the Age of Algorithmic Cruelty, 41
3 Education in the Age of 'Corporate YouTube': Big Data Analytics Meets Instafamous, 59
PART II: DIGITAL DISENGAGEMENT BETWEEN CO-OPTATION AND RESISTANCE, 79
4 Consuming Digital Disengagement: The High Cost of Opting Out, 81
5 The Labour of Digital Disengagement: Time and the Luxury of Opting Out, 97
6 Digital Disengagement and the Environment: Solutionism, Greenwashing and Partial Opt-Outs, 113
Conclusion: Paradoxes and the Elastic Continuum of Digital Disengagement, 137

Topics:

Digital Criticism