Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World

This essential read from author Adele Zeynep Walton explores the profound human impact of living in an increasingly digital society. Drawing on her experience as a Gen Z individual and freelance journalist, Walton examines the dual nature of digital connectivity—the opportunities it presents versus the significant costs borne by everyday people.

The book investigates how constant digital engagement links to anxiety and discontent, detailing how social media structures capitalize on human emotions and insecurities for profit, while everyday users face vulnerabilities ranging from algorithmic firings to online harms and censorship.

• Analysis of the link between lived realities and online vulnerabilities in the digital age.
• Examination of how Big Tech profits from user emotions and desires.
• Exploration of critical issues including algorithmic employment decisions, revenge porn forums, censorship of marginalized voices, and the impact of AI.
• A call for a radical reclamation of the digital world, advocating for solutions rooted in empathy, agency, and humanity.

• Author: Walton, Adele Zeynep
• Publisher: Trapeze
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Print Length: 256 pages
• Publication Date: May 28, 2026
• ISBN-10: 1398722944
• ISBN-13: 978-1398722941
• Dimensions: 125 x 28 x 194 mm
• Weight: 250 g

For readers interested in the intersection of technology, sociology, and business ethics, Logging Off offers a timely and astute critique of our current digital environment and proposes a path toward a more humane future.