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Researcher

Sara Van Bruyssel

Awards & Distinctions

11 Results

2025

Digital disconnection as a plight or right? A manifesto to re-imagine digital disconnection as a reasonable accommodation

Mariek Vanden AbeeleMarijn MartensSarah AnrijsSara Van BruysselDavid de Segovia Vicente

Bookchapter in The right not to use the internet : concept, contexts, consequences

Who cares about digital disconnection? Exploring commodified digital disconnection discourse through a relational lens

Sara Van BruysselRalf De WolfMariek Vanden Abeele

A1 Journal Article in CONVERGENCE-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

2024

Book Review: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life by Brita Ytre-Arne

Sara Van Bruyssel

From bliss to burden : an ethnographic inquiry into how social, material and individual obstacles to digital well-being shape everyday life

Sara Van BruysselRalf De WolfMariek Vanden Abeele

A1 Journal Article in NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY

Mapping a pluralistic continuum of approaches to digital disconnection

Morgan Quinn RossAlicia GilbertJulius KlingelhoeferMora MatassiLise-Marie NassenSara Van BruysselAlice VerlindenDouglas A. Parry

A1 Journal Article in MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY

Why, how, when, and for whom does digital disconnection work? A process-based framework of digital disconnection

Mariek Vanden AbeeleHeidi VandeboschErnst KosterTom De LeynKyle Van GaeverenDavid de Segovia VicenteSara Van BruysselTim van TimmerenLieven De MarezKarolien Poels et al.

A1 Journal Article in COMMUNICATION THEORY

2023

Disconnection, authenticity, and the good life : an inquiry into how online coaches embody digital well-being

Bert VerhulstSara Van BruysselTom De LeynMariek Vanden Abeele

From bliss to burden : an ethnography on systems of survival in everyday digitalized life

Sara Van BruysselRalf De WolfMariek Vanden Abeele

Who cares about digital disconnection? Analysing discourses of websites selling digital disconnection through a relational lens

Sara Van BruysselRalf De WolfMariek Vanden Abeele

Working towards a more equitable mobile communication research design : reflecting on gender, race, inequality and marginalization

Sara Van BruysselTom De LeynCecilia Uy-TiocoDidem ÖzkulLorenzo DalvitBert Verhulst

2022

Intersecting digital disconnection and care : a critical discourse analysis of online communication about commodified digital disconnection through a lens of care

Sara Van BruysselMariek Vanden AbeeleRalf De Wolf