Goodbye Twitter

5 pushback motives?

1. Emotional dissatisfaction: users pushing back because their needs are not being met.
2. External values: pushing back due to political, religious, or moral reasons (fearful that marketing, consumerism, and distraction is enveloping the user).
3. Taking back control: users pushing back to regain control of their time and energy.
4. Addiction: pushing back as a result of technology addiction.
5. Privacy: users pushing back due to fear about their privacy being violated (privacy is the least frequently reported reason).

egs of motivations??

1. Emotional dissatisfaction
2. External values
3. Taking back control
4. Addiction
5. Privacy

Addiction, defined

Internet addiction

a behavioral pattern characterized by excessive or obsessive online and offline computer use that leads to distress and impairment. (Association 2021)

• the “4Cs”
  • a compulsion & development of tolerance
  • that manifests in craving & experience of withdrawal
  • regardless of negative consequences
  • results in feeling a loss of control over use

Addiction, really?

Addicted??

What attributes of social media and apps leads to media dependence?

Countering obsession?

Pushback demographics?

5 pushback behaviors?

1. Behavior adaptation: managed technology used to reduce dissatisfaction (managed time, applications, fasting, dummy accounts)
2. Social agreement: collective decisions to limit media use (people putting away phone at a restaurant)
3. Tech solution: it technology intervention to reduce media use (moving to a dumbs/feature phone)
4. Back to the woods: dropping out from technology altogether
5. No problem: whatever it takes, just take it all in

Which is this?

egs of behaviors??

1. Behavior adaptation
2. Social agreement
3. Tech solution
4. Back to the woods
5. No problem

“Digital wellbeing”

Do you pushback? Will you?

Is push-back a …

• phase everyone goes through
• a societal fad
• genuine movement
• or something else?

Which is this?

What concepts from this course do we see?

ex. Why & how they’d quit??

• Neil Young
• Chrissy Teigen
• Elon Musk
• Lush Cosmetics UK

How can we adapt our behavior?

Would suggestions (e.g., mindfulness, focus, attention) from the start of the class be useful?

Are you…?

• never-betters (euphoric exaltation of technology)
• ever-wasers (nothing has really changed)
• better-nevers (bemoan negative effects)
• better-less (former euphorics now discontent with connectivity)

Will you still be reading the comments? (Reagle 2015)