The Digital Environment How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now

Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialise, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward the digitisation of everyday life made possible by innovations in media, information, and communication technology. In The Digital Environment, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein offer a new way to understand the role of the digital in our daily lives, calling on us to turn our attention from our discrete devices and apps to the array of artifacts and practices that make up the digital environment that envelops every aspect of our social experience. Boczkowski and Mitchelstein explore a series of issues raised by the digital takeover of everyday life, drawing on interviews with a variety of experts. They show how existing inequities of gender, race, ethnicity, education, and class are baked into the design and deployment of technology, and describe emancipatory practices that counter this--including the use of Twitter as a platform for activism through such hashtags as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. They discuss the digitisation of parenting, schooling, and dating--noting, among other things, that today we can both begin and end relationships online. They describe how digital media shapes our consumption of sports, entertainment, and news, and consider the dynamics of political campaigns, disinformation, and social activism. Finally, they report on developments in three areas that will be key to our digital future: data science, virtual reality, and space exploration.

ISBN:	9780262046190
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	11 Aug 2021
DEWEY:	303.4834
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xi, 195
Weight:	360g
Height:	210mm
Width:	144mm
Spine width:	24mm

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