Alex Beattie

Meet Alex, a PhD candidate in our Media Studies programme.

Alex Beattie has a First Class Honours degree, an MA (with distinction) in Digital Humanities from Kings College London, and is currently completing a PhD. His thesis is titled The Manufacture of Disconnection and examines a group of counter-cultural Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are inventing new ways to disconnect from the internet.
Deleting his Facebook account over four years ago, Alex is interested in the tension between unplugging and staying connected to the world. Outside of academia, Alex writes about technology and digital culture, and has featured in The Listener, Newsroom, as well as international publications such as Real Life. Alex regularly speaks about the benefits of disconnecting from the internet, and runs a workshop called Healthy Tech Habits.

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