The disconnection turn: Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism

Fast, Karin

doi:10.1177/13548565211033382

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“…In this process, contemporary capitalist productivity and labor productivity have been signi cantly improved, and labor methods and labor values have undergone major changes. e social and economic life of capitalism is quietly changing, which further accelerates the evolution and evolution of the capitalist social form [2,3].…”

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Generative Logic of Digital Capitalism Based on Artificial Intelligence Technology

Zongrui

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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In the era of digital capitalism, machines and technology have gradually become the main body that dominates workers. Information technology is actually the digital embodiment of mass machine production. It is with the help of ICT and digital technology that digital capitalism realizes the digital transformation of the way capitalism exists and the proliferation of digital capital. The purpose of this paper is to study the generative logic of digital capitalism based on artificial intelligence technology. Compare the production, circulation, consumption of traditional commodities, and the production of digital capital, explore the nature of digital capitalism and the differentiation of digital capitalism in the era of artificial intelligence, analyze the impact of artificial intelligence on labor polarization, and the results show the high-skilled labor force in the eastern region. The ratio to the medium-skilled labor force is 0.086. Take the M enterprise in capitalism as an example, and study the application of artificial intelligence to the energy and power industry to provide value to customers through new products. The new changes in contemporary artificial intelligence capitalism solve the problems in the operation of the original business model, benefiting both customers and enterprises.

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Generative Logic of Digital Capitalism Based on Artificial Intelligence Technology

Zongrui

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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“…Strategies often used for maintaining communication in a virtual/hybrid/remote/digital work mode can also create unhealthy expectations for constant availability, increased workload, disrupted work-life balance and fatigue (Adamovic 2022;Fast 2021). Therefore digital disconnectivity, that is the "deliberate "nonuse" of, "withdrawal" from, "disengagement" with, or "resistance" against digital media" (Fast 2021, 1615) is seen to be presented as a strategy " by which workers can regain control over increasingly liquid life domains" (Fast 2021(Fast , 1619.…”

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Designing Post-Digital Hybrid Workplaces

Tahsiri

2023

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As modes of work are becoming more diverse and distributed, it necessitates a revaluation of the approaches taken in designing of future workplaces. This paper argues that we are moving towards work practices that are post-digital, hybrid and collaborative in nature, requiring a closer examination of the values and requirements expected for such a workplace. In this light, the paper presents a Systematic Literature Review of research pertinent to workplace dynamics, design and management within the last decade. Two themes of ‘quality of life and satisfaction’ and ‘productivity and collaboration’ were found to be key areas of focus in literature. Collectively factors contributing to work dynamics and performance under these two themes were: crowding, degree of connectivity, degree of sociability, employee culture and perception of work, fatigue and stress, indoor environmental quality, motivation, conditions of the remote site of work, degree and culture of communication, degree of control, distractions with non-work related content, infrastructure for effective communication and interaction, mobility and flexibility, office layout and degree of spaciousness, and work and cognitive load. These raised a number of expectations for the workplace, which this paper argues renders the future workplace as a tempo-spatial phenomenon, juxtaposing constructs of the personal/individual with the social collective, dysconnectivity with connectivity and asynchrony with synchrony within a network of functions distributed across physical and digital spaces of work.

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“…In both media effects and media studies research, digital disconnection is both implicitly (e.g., Vanden Abeele, 2021) and explicitly (e.g., Fast, 2021;Nguyen, 2021) recognized as an act that might be conducive to digital well-being. 2 In media effects research, for instance, a growing number of studies explore the effects of limiting-mostly mobile -connectivity on well-being and its associated outcomes, often using synonymous or adjacent concepts to digital disconnection such as "smartphone abstinence" (Wilcockson et al, 2019), "social media abstinence" (Hall, Xing, et al, 2021), "digital detox" (Schmuck, 2020), and "smartphone disengagement" (Matthes et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These developments may illustrate a new phase in our collective effort to domesticate mobile connectivity in everyday life. But as Fast (2021) and Görland and Kannengießer (2021) note, we should be wary of internalizing acts of “slowing down” through digital disconnection and being more mindful to our mobile media use as necessary “acts of recovery” to enable greater productivity in the future, as mobile connectivity then simply serves as a scapegoat for other, more profound problems in the social organization of our society. To that end, it is essential to continue developing mobile perspectives on the phenomena of digital well-being and disconnection.…”

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Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue

Abeele

Nguyen

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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Although the ubiquitous connectivity afforded by mobile media brings benefits to people’s work, social, and leisure lives, these benefits are sometimes overshadowed by the burdens of 24/7 connectivity, which challenge the well-being of individuals and society. Digital well-being is an emerging concept that refers to how people experience these benefits and burdens. This Special Issue brings together five articles that push the boundaries of digital well-being research by shedding light on the opportunities and challenges that people experience in relation to mobile connectivity, exploring the role of digital disconnection for digital well-being, and theorizing the conceptual underpinnings of digital well-being. In this editorial, we first give a definitional overview of the digital well-being concept and situate it in the field of mobile media and communication scholarship. Next, we identify two key issues that emerge from the Special Issue, and explain how the individual articles further our understanding of them. These issues are: (a) the strong conceptual link between digital well-being and digital disconnection; and (b) the conceptual difference between digital well-being as a psychological condition and as a socio-cultural artefact. To end, we present a future research agenda on digital well-being by first identifying current knowledge gaps, and next highlighting several themes that we anticipate as crucial in the forthcoming decade of digital well-being research in an age of mobile connectivity.

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The disconnection turn: Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism

Cited by 35 publications

References 69 publications

Generative Logic of Digital Capitalism Based on Artificial Intelligence Technology

Generative Logic of Digital Capitalism Based on Artificial Intelligence Technology

Designing Post-Digital Hybrid Workplaces

Digital well-being in an age of mobile connectivity: An introduction to the Special Issue

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