Logging Off

The Human Cost of Our Digital World

Plot

We live in a digital world. In the thirty years since we've been online, we've created connections and crossed boundaries. We have done things generatians before us could never have imagined.

But at what cost?

As Big Tech barons make their billions, capitalising on our emotions, instincts, insecurities and desires, everyday people are losing out.

Journalist and writer Adele Zeynep Walton understands this better than most. After losing her sister to online harms, she is determined to lift the lid on the true life stories of those most impacted by the unrelenting expansion of the digital sphere and shed light on the negative influence it has on our lives.

From online forums dedicated to encouraging suicide to workers being fired by algorithms; from censorship of dissenting voices to the turbulent impacts of Al, Logging Off reveals that digital technology is currently fuelling crises that only empathy, agency and humanity can resolve. This book is a call for a more humane future that empowers us all.

"A deeply moving and powerfully argued exposé of the technologies that have come to dominate our lives'
GRACE BLAKELEY

"Poignant, timely and astute'
YOMI ADEGOKE