Digital Minimalism as a Leading Limitation of Media Communications in the Heyday of Digital Culture

Abstract

Digitalization today affects almost all spheres of human activity, including business and personal communications. At the same time, individuals increasingly use restrictions on the media presence of their and others in the space online. Such restrictions can be expressed in the form of a "digital diet" as a partial restriction on online communications and media consumption; in the form of "digital detox" as a temporary rejection of digital life, as well as in the form of "media asceticism" as a conscious withdrawal into an offline environment. Our paper defines digital minimalism in business and personal communications as the dissemination of digital etiquette, certain behavioural practices in the media environment, as well as new digital terminology, which generally sets the prospects for regulating media consumption and the further development of digital culture. The results highlight the value of live communication as social capital that opposes the development and spread of digital relationships.

“One button in my pocket instead of the smartphone”: A methodological assemblage connecting self-research and autoethnography in a digital disengagement study

“…In a relatively different approach to similar ethnographic accounts (Ghita, 2019;Lucero, 2018), the duration and levels of detail and insight from this focused analytic autoethnography provide a denser account of several reactions and consequences derived from smartphone disengagement, in line with previous literature from HCI, digital media and health (Brown and Kuss, 2020;Rodríguez-García et al, 2020;Skivko et al, 2020). This iterative interpretation of results, as already mentioned, was based on retrospective classification, topic coding and visualization of the mentioned total of 267 registered events and 112 fieldnotes (Figure 6), as well as further ethnographic reading and writing derived from it, following practices of grounded theory.…”

“One button in my pocket instead of the smartphone” – A methodological assemblage connecting self-research and autoethnography in a digital disengagement study

“…In a relatively different approach to similar ethnographic accounts (Lucero, 2018;Ghita, 2019), the duration and levels of detail and insight from this focused analytic autoethnography provide a denser account of several reactions and consequences derived from smartphone disengagement, in line with previous literature from HCI, digital media and health (Brown and Kuss, 2020;Rodríguez-García, Moreno-Guerrero and López Belmonte, 2020;Skivko, Korneeva and Kolmykova, 2020). This iterative interpretation of results, as already mentioned, was based on retrospective classification, topic coding and visualization of the mentioned total of 267 registered events and 112 fieldnotes (Figure 6), as well as further ethnographic reading and writing derived from it.…”

Digital Asceticism: Philosophy Is Back to School

“…The virtual world, with its screens, chat rooms and voice messengers, replaces real human communication, which leads to serious problems and prevents the realization of his full potential and capabilities. The digitalization of society has increased the amount of time spent online, which often leads to isolation from the real world (Skivko et al, 2020). People face problems in personal relationships, lack of face-to-face communication and difficulty in making quality connections with others.…”