Navigating the Online Landscape

ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches

By: Alex Beattie
Published: 2025

Digital disconnection is increasingly sparking widespread debate and action, with social media age restrictions and phone bans being enacted around the world. As more people are required or encouraged to…continue reading

Disability & Neurodivergence Health & Wellbeing Media & Communications Policy
Navigating the Online Landscape

The demographics of digital disconnection:prevalence, motives and barriers to disconnectingfrom the Internet in Aotearoa New Zealand

By: Alex Beattie, John Kerr & Karaitiana Taiuru
Published: 2024

This study explores how often New Zealanders’ deliberately disconnect from the Internet (“digital disconnection”). Utilizing a nationally representative survey of 1,012 participants, the research investigates the frequency of disconnection from…continue reading

Community Development Media & Communications People and Society
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