Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

I’m a little frustrated I can’t find information about how the sample (n=1,293) was recruited but I can’t stop thinking about this finding from BSI research:

This is crying out for qualitative follow up? Do they try and realise this in their own technology use? Does this necessarily lead them to try and reduce their internet use? What barriers do they face in reducing their internet use? Do they have sources of support and insight in such an undertaking? There’s certainly evidence of a desire for support:

Over a quarter (27%) argue phones should be banned in schools – something many campaigners and politicians across the spectrum are calling for – and half back recently suggested ideas of a social media curfew where platforms are inaccessible after a certain time in the evening. A fifth (22%) say their lives would be better without access to online gaming

How can quitting be incorporated into media literacy training? This seems like a good place to start.

Phones Away, Life Awaits - Jimmy Carr on JRE

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Detachment or disconnection ruminations-

#disconnection says: “This pain is not mine. I don’t have to feel it.”

#detachment says: “This pain is not only mine. I can feel it with care, not be consumed by it.”

Disconnection numbs us from the field.

Detachment frees us to stay in the field without drowning.

Disconnection can be a trauma reflex.

Detachment can be a trauma integration.

Empathy feels connection. Sympathy drives disconnection.

'Theresa Wiseman, author of A Concept Analysis Of Empathy, came up with four qualities of empathy:
perspective taking, the ability to take the perspective of another person, or recognize their perspective is their truth, or staying out of judgement and recognizing emotions of other people and communicating that.'

#connection #empathy #sympathy #disconnection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3dC-2XcUXVMfoiOABJIuUusPk-TzE-5uEQBBkFzX5GtQGXTFlUhjebkEo_aem_O3GzSFC4wsj6wbutRo9Thw

"The most dangerous aspect of this trade-off isn’t the loss of privacy—it’s the loss of awareness that we’re losing anything at all. We’re not just losing skills and privacy; we’re losing the ability to recognize what independence feels like. The question isn’t whether convenience is worth the cost of liberty—it’s whether we’ll recognize what we’ve lost before we forget we ever had it."—Josh Stylman >

https://truthunmuted.org/digital-control-how-engineered-dependency-erases-our-autonomy/

#dependency #convenience #surveillance #amnesia #security #socialmedia #smartfeatures #disconnection #appintegration #CBDC #compliance #AI #atrophy #dumbingdown vs #autonomy #awareness #craftsmanship #problemssolving #community #skills #makers #writing #literacy #health #wellbeing #independence #freedom #capability #selfagency
#DigitalControl

Cracked
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#art #mastodonart #doll #puppet #totem #broken #drawing #inkdrawing #bristolboard #marker #stippling #cell #cage #lonelinessepidemic #poverty #stiffness #wooden #shamanism #disconnection #immobilisation #retribalisation #dispirited #snapseededit #heartminddisconnect

https://www.evshift.com/312744/how-to-use-stabiliser-with-disconnection-mechanism-sdm-i-toyota-new-generation-land-cruiser-250/ How to use Stabiliser with Disconnection Mechanism (SDM) I Toyota New Generation Land Cruiser 250 #cruiser #Disconnection #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #Europe #EV #generation #Land #Mechanism #motor #SDM #Stabiliser #Toyota #ToyotaEurope

Kenny Andejeski is tackling a vital question: How can we create healthy #RitesOfPassage for young men? He’s exploring how their absence contributes to #disconnection & #radicalization. Read more: https://zurl.co/sST6

#Masculinity #Inclusion #WhatIF @andajetski

The Gaze.

Original artwork by Graham Bates.

The remains of the day, Cobra oil paint

'Disconnection'
acryl paintings on canvas
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30x40 acryl on canvas
‘disconnected’ (part III)

Naar fotografie: Todd Hido

#Disconnection #CellPhones #Migrants #AsylumSeekers: "This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings that migrants and asylum seekers attach to mobile connection and disconnection and by the different value they place on the public and private dimensions of their lives. By offering a multifaceted portrait of the mobile connection and disconnection practices of different categories of migrants, this article also contributes to: (1) media and migration studies, by showing that there are substantial differences in online connection practices and smartphone use between asylum seekers and migrants and (2) to disconnection studies, by highlighting the nuances that exist within disconnection practices among non-privileged social groups, such as migrants and asylum seekers. We show that they cannot afford to practise typically Western, urban and elitist forms of disconnection; however, they too are able to practise specific forms of disconnection, paradoxically afforded by staying connected. The article aims to contextualise and situate disconnection studies within different social, political, cultural and geographic contexts." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241249371

Touching the void?
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"It is certainly not about reinforcing institutionalized relationships of subordination or returning to some kind of caste system... Rather, the key to overcoming the malaises of #alienation is about changing the social conditions or epidemiology of this alienation and moving societies beyond common indignities, gross inequities, and identity politics. "

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/10/the-malaise-of-maga/

#Behave2023 Interesting session on #Digitalisation and #sustainability. @MathijsBodelier spoke about the challenges of moderating demand, @CristinaGhita spoke about scaling up #disconnection practices. And I spoke about policy implications of future digitalisation pathways.