Balancing your life on- and offline How to feel more human in a digital world
NON-FICTION
Sidney Vollmer On/Off The amount of digital technology grows incessantly and often, it enriches our life in unimaginable ways. But are we aware of the unwanted and subtle consequences that digital convenience and entertainment has to our creativity, our culture, our memory and self-image? Media scholar Sidney John Vollmer discusses his own struggles with digital temptations. From a childhood with VHS, msn-chats and Nintendo to borrowing his mother’s cellphone, he arrives at algorithms, big data, AI and fake news of the present. In a fascinating and open minded manner, he describes important precursors and key differences between earlier and present day technology and comes with suggestions and principles to tackle our dependence on modern digital technology – our digitalism. On/Off is a personal and candid quest for
Original title On/Off. Meer balans tussen je online en offline
balance in digital times.
leven | Non-Fiction | 288 pages | Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Sidney Vollmer
(1983) previ-
ously wrote the novel Everything smells like chocolate, also published an award-win-
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ning and revolutionary BookApp. He pub-
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lished the Twitter diary Atlas Moth, wrote
Jolijn Spooren | j.spooren@singeluitgeverijen.nl
columns for various magazines, screenplays, directed fiction films and theater. He currently works as a communications strategist in the advertising world.
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