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Restless Devices - Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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Restless Devices - Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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We're being formed by our devices. Today's digital technologies are
designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries,
shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others,
even to God. Our natural longing for relationship makes us
vulnerable to the "industrializing" effects of social media. While
we enjoy the benefits of digital tech, many of us feel troubled
with its power and exhausted by its demands for permanent
connectivity. Yet even as we grow disenchanted, attempting to
resist the digital "powers that be" might seem like a losing
battle. Sociologist Felicia Wu Song has spent years considering the
personal and collective dynamics of digital ecosystems. She
combines psychological, neurological, and sociological insights
with theological reflection to explore two major questions: What
kind of people are we becoming with personal technologies in hand?
And who do we really want to be? Song unpacks the soft tyranny of
the digital age, including the values embedded in our apps and the
economic systems that drive our habits. She then explores pathways
of meaningful resistance that can be found in Christian
tradition-especially counter-narratives about human worth,
embodiment, relationality, and time-and offers practical
experiments for individual and communal change. In our current
digital ecologies, small behavioral shifts are not enough to give
us freedom. We need a sober and motivating vision of our prospects
to help us imagine what kind of life we hope to live-and how we can
get there.
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