mercredi 18 novembre 2015

Voluntary disconnection

For our mobile app micro-project, Jose, Yoan, Sylvain and me must understand the voluntary disconnection phenomenon.


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After a great craze for information and communication technologies, the magic is falling. Today, people try to get some space and this is the Silicon Valley engineers who was tge first to do it. For ten years, they created the "off-liners" movement who advocate the partial and temporary digital diet. 
With the smartphone and touchpad generalization, connexion became permanent. The emergence to the users of a feeling of loss of control in their time management and their activities who, by reaction, lead them to make some digital breaks, was noticed.

Devotic, a french study, shows that lack of time, emergency mode, dispersal and intrusion of the professional in the private make that business executives never take down technologies they must stay tuned of the compagny, or to win time, or to don't miss opportunities.
The study also shows that, even at the end of the earth, the practical logic (to find his way, to assure his security) and the pressure exercised by close friends (obligation to stay in touch, to give news) prevent this cut so hoped. 

After all, if all the surveys show that french demonstrate more and more the desire to be disconnected, total disconnexions (several days) are rare. The forms of disconnexion are short-lived and partials. For exemple, you put your phone in silent mode, you leave your computer to the office, you take a coffe without your phone, you don't watch your emails for a week-end...

1 commentaire:

  1. Can we not imagine the possibility to use a phone or a tablet without connection ? I think it can be a path to explore for you. For exemple an application for hike that stops any connection to take us on an adventure...

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