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T1 - Breaking the Cornucopian Paradigm
T2 - Towards Moderate Internet Use in Everyday Life
AU - Widdicks, Kelly Victoria
AU - Pargman, Daniel
N1 - © ACM, YYYY. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in LIMITS '19 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computing within Limits 2019 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3338105
PY - 2019/6/10
Y1 - 2019/6/10
N2 - The Internet and digital devices are increasingly embedded in our everyday lives. The hidden environmental impacts of this infrastructure are substantial and quietly growing at an increasing rate. Our collective Internet use is following a ‘Cornucopian paradigm’, which is unsustainable. And yet, while intentionally limiting our online connectivity might be seen negatively as a retrograde step, in this paper, we offer ways in which users might welcome attempts to moderate their Internet use through improving four aspects of our digitally-mediated lives: relationships, digital wellbeing, productivity at work, and online privacy. Given these areas, we discuss how our research agenda may realistically be facilitated and what challenges we may face in moving from the reinforcement of ‘business as usual’ trends. By investigating and developing user-centred, moderate Internet use, we can ‘break’ the Cornucopian paradigm.
AB - The Internet and digital devices are increasingly embedded in our everyday lives. The hidden environmental impacts of this infrastructure are substantial and quietly growing at an increasing rate. Our collective Internet use is following a ‘Cornucopian paradigm’, which is unsustainable. And yet, while intentionally limiting our online connectivity might be seen negatively as a retrograde step, in this paper, we offer ways in which users might welcome attempts to moderate their Internet use through improving four aspects of our digitally-mediated lives: relationships, digital wellbeing, productivity at work, and online privacy. Given these areas, we discuss how our research agenda may realistically be facilitated and what challenges we may face in moving from the reinforcement of ‘business as usual’ trends. By investigating and developing user-centred, moderate Internet use, we can ‘break’ the Cornucopian paradigm.
U2 - 10.1145/3338103.3338105
DO - 10.1145/3338103.3338105
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450372817
BT - The Fifth Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS 2019)
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -