Academics working on topics related to digital disconnection and media nostalgia. There is now a growing number of scholars and research groups working in this area, which is only set to expand as digital technologies continue to become increasingly embedded within our lives and societies. Already 'disconnection studies' has been labelled as a distinct field of interdisciplinary research and a number of research projects related to this topic are underway, including 'Digitox: Intrusive Media, Ambivalent Users and Digital Detox' led by Trine Syvertsen from the University of Oslo, and 'Quitting Social Media' led by Zeena Feldman from King's College London. The Analogue Idyll will directly appeal to this new area of cultural inquiry. In addition, this book will also be of critical importance to scholars working on topics related to media nostalgia. This area of research has also been growing in recent years, with the International Media and Nostalgia Network (IMNN) launched in 2015. Interest in nostalgia as a key modality of digital culture continues to accelerate, especially among media studies and cultural studies scholars, and Routledge will be publishing the Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia in early 2024.
Edited by:
A.R.E. Taylor (University of Exeter)
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529233704
ISBN 10: 1529233704
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 26 February 2026
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Further / Higher Education
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
1. Introduction: A New Idyll Myth? - A.R.E. Taylor 2. ‘We Don’t Have Wi-Fi, Talk to Each Other’: Digital Disconnection in the Hospitality Industry - Alexandra Kviat 3. Digital Disconnection and Agency: Ambiguities, Differences and Continuities - Paula Helm 4. Selling the Promise of Presence: How Companies Promote Digital Disconnection and Detox Courses in Denmark - Kristoffer Albris, Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Annika Isfeldt Disentangling 5. Digital Collapse and Doomsday Prepping - A.R.E. Taylor 6. Digital Representations on the Appalachian Trail: Complicating Experiences of Long-Distance Walking as an Analogue Idyll - Dave McLaughlin 7. Disconnecting Against Intrusion: Ethnographic Reflections from Kinshasa - Katrien Pype 8. Finding Digital Distance: Tactics in the New Digital Divide - Paul O’ Connor 9. Analogue Celebrity - Neil Ewen and A.R.E. Taylor 10. Analogue Labour: The Making of Vinyl Records and Craft Work after Digitization - Michael Palm 11. Fugitive Pathways: Seclusion, Ephemerality and Co-Presence in Higher Education - Lesley Gourlay
A.R.E. Taylor is Lecturer in Communications at the University of Exeter, UK.
Reviews for The Analogue Idyll: Disconnection, Detox, and Departure from the Digital World
‘Is the culture of connectivity giving rise to an age of technostalgia? This book provides you with illuminating analyses of how digitization leads to a new longing for disconnection and offline purity. A real eye opener!’ José van Dijck, Utrecht University
