Over the last three decades, our lives have been irrevocably altered by the rapid evolvement of digital technology, with our bodies and minds locked into an obsessive relationship with the online world. For Adele Zeynep Walton the cost of this often toxic tryst is uniquely personal as she comes to terms, not only with her own uses of digital platforms and social media, but of the harms and abuses that led to the tragic loss of her sister.

An excoriating and deeply affecting work of non-fiction, Logging Off forces us to face the algorithm front on and more honestly consider the effect the digital world is having on contemporary existence, asking ourselves why Big Tech firms are desperate to keep us scrolling even in the face of accelerating anxiety and discontent…

In conversation with award-winning Birmingham-based journalist, Dan Cave.

This event is sponsored by Birmingham Newman University