
The pleasure, the pain and the politics of a digital detox
Studying why and how people take digital-media breaks can reveal what individuals and societies value in unmediated spaces
by Trine Syvertsen
Trine Syvertsen is professor of media studies at the University of Oslo in Norway. She is the author of Media Resistance: Protest, Dislike, Abstention (open access, Palgrave, 2017) and Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting (Emerald, 2020), and co-author of The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era (University of Michigan Press, 2014).