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For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling

Cover of Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement In Search of the Opt-Out Button by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake (University of Westminster Press). Image by ketchup.

By Andrew Culp, Claudia Skinner, Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake and Tero Karppi

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Tero Karppi.

For the Moment, I Am Not Scrolling

Cover of Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement In Search of the Opt-Out Button by Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake (University of Westminster Press). Image by ketchup.

By Claudia Skinner, Andrew Culp, Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake and Tero Karppi

Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntzman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022).

Review of The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel (University of California Press)

By Alyce Currier

What could we discover about the forces shaping the internet, and what could we learn about how to fight back against those forces if we committed to the metaphor of gentrification? In The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom, Jessa Lingel shows that gentrification can be a useful lens through which to expose how power and class play out in online space. In a moment of increasing techno-skepticism, The Gentrification of the Internet offers a starting point for action, grounded in the reality of urban gentrification activism with proven results.