Hannas manifesto

This project consists of alienating ourselves from digital devices this includes phones, televisions and computers. Over time digital technology has been more commonly used and in todays society peoples phones almost do everything from alarm clocks to calculators to phone calls and emails. These are all some of the things I use my phone for.

Digital devises runs deeply in my life as I use it daily. This is the main reason I want to do this digital detox, as I want to see if I am able to do this challenge. Using my phone for various social networks like Instagram and using my laptop for watching shows are all time consuming activities. So I would want to see exactly how much time I save from restraining my use of digital technology. I want to also the impact it will have on me and see whether I end up using my time more productively. To add I want to see whether it affects my social relationships with friends and family, as I would not be able to keep in contact. I have highlighted the impacts on social relationships and time as I predict it may have a negative impact because I use my phone to stay in contact and meet up with friends regularly. To add it’s obvious that’s it is time consuming because I can stay on What Sapp or Instagram all day without fail. Thus my conclusion will be interesting.

There is a clear political influence that digital media has on me is its what keeps me updated on what’s happening around the world. On twitter I follow the BBC News it does regularly post tweets about what happened daily. The negative thing about this is that I do not have a broad range of news as I only see and read BBC. So in this sense I am not politically aware of what’s going all around the world as I don’t rely on various different sources for news or follow other news accounts; thus news I read is bias as they present what they want to show.  Despite this it is more convenient for me to read various different news like journals or newspapers. And this way I’m still abiding by the rules of my digital detox.

Our group has highlighted exceptions to the use of digital technology e.g. using the computer at university for essay work. My personal exception for the digital detox is to use my phone if I am out late to speak to my mother. My personal challenge is to see whether I can fight temptation and not go and social network.

The digital detox experiment will last 2 weeks the first week will be an observation where I will look at how much time I spend using technology. The following week I will avoid the use of all digital technology except for the exceptions mentioned in the group manifesto.

As the blog is online and this goes against our digital detox we will report the progress of the experiment the old fashioned way with a pen and paper.