Using a lens of mindfulness, this book explores how digital dependencies can displace attention and undermine attentional control, leading to experiences of stress and mindless involvement with digital technology. Using qualitative interviews with teachers and students of mindfulness programmes, the book explores the challenges and opportunities for reconciling digital interactions with mindful practice. A phenomenological analysis of participants’ digital experiences shows three differentimperatives(relating to digital capabilities, hyper-reality and algorithms), that can drive unconscious...
Using a lens of mindfulness, this book explores how digital dependencies can displace attention and undermine attentional control, leading to experien...