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Pulling the plug visually: Images of resistance to ICTs and connectivity | First Monday

As information and communication technologies (ICTs) become ever more present and pervasive in daily life, the use or non-use of ICTs can provide choices as well as obstacles or exclusion. As people look for ways to reduce ICT use and push back on ICT immersion, some express resistance to ICTs via ICTs. Building on past scholarship based largely on interviews, surveys and textual analysis, this exploratory study analyzes a collection of images posted online that express a critique of the ubiquit...

Pushback: Expressions of resistance to the “evertime” of constant online connectivity | First Monday

As a result of the widespread connectivity provided by smartphones, laptops, and tablets, technology users can and often are continuously connected to the Internet and its communication services, a phenomenon some start to call “evertime.” However, many users who first embraced constant connectivity are now pushing back, looking for ways to resist being permanently connected and contactable. This pushback behavior is increasingly visible in the popular press, in personal blogs, and in a small nu...

About past work:

In the 90s, I started out as a journalist writing for The Village Voice and NY Newsday on pollution in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I then wrote copy for video game manuals. In recent years, I worked as a grant writer for the University of Washington School of Medicine, securing over   $ 7 million in funding for medical education programs. In my spare time, I write fiction and poetry. You can find my most recent chapbook of poetry, Complicated Grief, on Amazon.