The Comfort of Screens
Literacy in Postdigital Times
Author(s): Jennifer Rowsell
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Are screens the modern mirrors of the soul? The postdigital condition blurs the line between screens, humans, physical contexts, virtual worlds, analogue texts, and time as linear and lockstep. This book presents a unique study into people and their screen lives, giving readers an original perspective on digital literacies and communication in an ever-changing and capaciously connected world. Seventeen individuals who all live on the same crescent, aged from 23 to 84, share their thoughts, habits, and ruminations on screen lives, illuminating eclectic, complex, and dynamic insights about life in a postdigital age. Their stories are brought to life through theory, interview excerpts, song lyrics, and woodcut illustrations. Breaking free from digital literacy as a separate, discrete skill to one that should be taught as it is lived – especially as automation, AI, and algorithms encroach into our everyday lives – this fascinating book pulls readers into the future of digital education.
- Provides an in-depth view of the properties and practices of contemporary (post)digital lives, through seventeen people's experiences with screens.
- Emulates the layered quality of postdigital lives through the structure of the book, by combining Rowsell's research with the insights of a new writer, Sam Sandor, and with vivid postdigital woodcut illustrations.
- Interweaves philosophy and postqualitative thinkers with post-pandemic practices and algorithmic, data-driven logic, capturing people's entrenched urge to connect with their screens.
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