Digital Degrowth by Neil Selwyn - 9781509563272

Name: Digital Degrowth by Neil Selwyn - 9781509563272
Brand: Polity Press

Polity Press

Digital DegrowthRadically Rethinking our Digital Futures\nAuthor(s): Neil Selwyn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Polity Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509563272, 978-1509563272\nSynopsis\nWe are fast approaching the point of peak digital, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability.\n\nDigital Degrowthis a call to completely rethink our digital futures in these fast-changing times. It explores how degrowth thinking and alternate forms of radically sustainable computing might support ambitions of sustainable, scaled-down and equitable ways of living with digital technologies. Neil Selwyn proposesa rebalancing of digital technology use: digital degrowth is not a call for simply making reduced use of the digital technologies that we already have rather it is an argument to reimagine digital practices that maximise societa.