Understanding Digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a Digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps.
Boczkowski and Mitchelstein are coauthors of The News Gap: When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge (MIT Press)..
Eugenia Mitchelstein is Associate Professor and Chair of the Social Sciences Department and Director of the Communication Degree at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires.
Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
About author(s): Pablo J.
Finally, they report on developments in three areas that will be key to our Digital future: data science, virtual reality, and space exploration.
They describe how Digital media shape our consumption of sports, entertainment, and news, and consider the dynamics of political campaigns, disinformation, and social activism.
They discuss the digitization of parenting, schooling, and dating--noting, among other things, that today we can both begin and end relationships online.
They show how existing inequities of gender, race, ethnicity, education, and class are baked into the design and deployment of technology, and describe emancipatory practices that counter this--including the use of Twitter as a platform for activism through such hashtags as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo.
Boczkowski and Mitchelstein explore a series of issues raised by the Digital takeover of everyday life, drawing on interviews with a variety of experts.
In The Digital Environment , Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein offer a new way to understand the role of the Digital in our daily lives, calling on us to turn our attention from our discrete devices and apps to the array of artifacts and practices that make up the Digital environment that envelops every aspect of our social experience.
The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward the digitization of everyday life made possible by innovations in media, information, and communication technology.
Increasingly we Live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and Learn digitally.
Understanding Digital technology in daily life: why we should think holistically in terms of a Digital environment instead of discrete devices and apps
