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, but they also accelerate our lives affecting our well-being and determining our life chances.

Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy?

Drawing on the ideas of the 'slow movement', Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control...

• 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"