Digital harm and addiction
An anthropological view
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2247886 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodora Sutton (0000-0002-8790-3709, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-22 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8322.12553 |
| OpenAlex | W3004816110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 23 |
A broad trend of anti-tech rhetoric has raised fears about the dangers of digital overuse and reliance and suggests that technology is addictive, unnatural or harmful. Some people have limited their hours of 'screen time' or resorted to the practice of 'digital detoxing' - a catch-all term to describe temporarily 'leaving' the digital world. Using her ethnographic work in a North American digital detox retreat, the author considers an anthropological approach to digital harm and addiction that emphasizes their socially constructed nature. Following Horst and Miller (2012) and the view that digital harms are socially constructed, she argues that digital technology will be removed in different places for different reasons, and that geographically bound cultural values are vital to understanding how digital harms come to be imagined and counteracted. Whether or not digital use will ever be proven to be clinically harmful, digital harm is best viewed as a 'social fact
Addiction · Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Harm · Internet privacy · Miller · Rhetoric · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Philosophy · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
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Keeping the Snout in the Plough Furrow
Digital inequality in disconnection practices
Family E-Chat Group Use Was Associated with Family Wellbeing and Personal Happiness in Hong Kong Adults amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Internet interventions and therapies for addressing the negative impact of digital overuse
In the mood for disconnection
Discipline as Prevention
Digital consumption and socio-normative vulnerability
Control is up to me’
Critical, Qualitative and Situated
Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity
Disciplining the Akratic user
Managing Social Media Use in an “Always-On” Society
Everyday disconnection experiences
Communities, Collectives, and Categories
ADHD and digital disconnection
The Mushroom at the End of the Patch Cord
Abusive Practices, Self-regulation Strategies, and the Language of Addiction
Our old pastor thinks the mobile phone is a source of evil.' Capturing contested and conflicting insights on digital wellbeing and digital detoxing in an age of rapid mobile connectivity
Meditation Apps and the Promise of Attention by Design
The Algorithms of Mindfulness
Becoming Spectral
I Flip, Therefore I Am
Earthly bodies, magical selves
Oprah
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?
Making Gender
Religions of Modernity
Alone together
Cultures@SiliconValley
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Reassembling the Social
Improvisational economies
Disconnect to reconnect
We Can’t Go Back a Hundred Million Years”
The Ego Ideal of the Good Camper’ and the Nature of Summer Camp
Critical Psychiatry
The Trouble with Wilderness
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture
The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
Ambient co-presence
The Internet
The medicalisation of shyness
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |