Overview
- Addresses growing concerns about digital dependency that pervade post-industrial societies
- Explores the possibilities for combining digital and mindful practice
- Examines the effect of digital technology, hyper-reality and algorithmic control on attention and wellbeing.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology (PASCY)
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About this book
Using a lens of mindfulness, this book explores how digital dependencies can displace attention and undermine attentional control, leading to experiences of stress and mindless involvement with digital technology. Using qualitative interviews with teachers and students of mindfulness programmes, the book explores the challenges and opportunities for reconciling digital interactions with mindful practice. A phenomenological analysis of participants’ digital experiences shows three different imperatives (relating to digital capabilities, hyper-reality and algorithms), that can drive unconscious forms of interaction and encourage a delegation of attentional control that draws users away from the present moment. The book concludes by exploring the implications of these (extra-conscious) imperatives for understanding digital addiction. It also provides a set of guidelines for a digital approach to mindfulness practice that can encourage beneficial relationships with digital technology into the future.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dave Harley is Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton and a Committee Member of the BPS Cyberpsychology Section. His research explores older people’s appropriation of digital technologies and issues relating to the extended digital self. He co-authored the 2018 book: Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mindfulness in a Digital World
Authors: Dave Harley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19407-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19406-1Published: 15 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19407-8Published: 14 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-2754
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2762
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 101
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology, general, Positive Psychology, Digital/New Media, Philosophy, general