[Air-L] The weight of connectivity –disconnection, disengagement and digital rights

Adi Kuntsman adi_kuntsman at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 23 01:59:24 PDT 2025


Theweight of connectivity –disconnection, disengagement and digital rights

9May 10.30am-12noon UK time, online

 
Event info: Kenzie Burchell, the author of ConstantDisconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life (StanfordUP) and Adi Kuntsman, the co-author of Paradoxesof Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt Out Button (withEsperanza Miyake, Westminster UP) will discuss compulsory connectivity,disengagement and digital rights. Please join us to hear more about their twobooks, and explore how digital communication shaped and was shaped by theCovid-19 pandemic, global war and capitalism, and the rise of generative AI. Moreinformation about the event.

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DrAdi Kuntsman,Reader in Digital Politics

Head of Ethics, Faculty of Arts andHumanities
Co-Lead, Digital Society Research Group
Director, Digital Politics Summer School
Department of History, Politics and Philosophy
Manchester Metropolitan University

Series Co-editor, Digital Materialities and Sustainable Futures

Latest books:
2024 Digital Technologies, Smart Cities and the Environment:in the Ruins of Broken Promises (with Liu Xin, BristolUniversity Press)
2023 Digital Disengagement: COVID-19, Digital Justice and thePolitics of Refusal (with Sam Martin and EsperanzaMiyake, Bristol University Press).
2022 Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the OptOut Button (with Esperanza Miyake, Westminster UniversityPress)



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