We\'re being formed by our devices.
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..
In our current Digital ecologies, small behavioral shifts are not enough to give us freedom.
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.
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.
Sociologist Felicia Wu Song has spent years considering the personal and collective dynamics of Digital ecosystems.
Yet even as we grow disenchanted, attempting to resist the Digital powers that be might seem like a losing battle.
While we enjoy the benefits of Digital tech, many of us feel troubled with its power and exhausted by its demands for permanent connectivity.
Our natural longing for relationship makes us vulnerable to the industrializing effects of social media.
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.
We\'re being formed by our devices
