Dr Elaine Kasket.
Dr Elaine Kasket is a leading cyberpsychologist and Counselling Psychologist.
Elaine is an expert in how our digital choices shape our experience and relationships across the lifespan, at home and at work. Recognising the unprecedented nature of the psychological and social dilemmas we face in a technologically saturated world, she focuses on how we can deepen our wellbeing, maximise connection and relational depth, and retain our fundamental humanity in the digital era. Central to her philosophy is recognising and challenging our narratives of helplessness in the face of technology; realising the fuller extent of our power; and building more meaningful lives with and through tech.
Elaine’s new book Reboot: Reclaiming your life in a Tech Obsessed World (2023), delves into the diverse roles tech plays in modern existence, including: remote/hybrid working; employer surveillance; threats to identity and autonomy; and the new phenomena of digital gestation and digital afterlives. She has also written All the Ghosts in the Machine: The Digital Afterlife of Your Personal Data (2019), which proposes that what happens to our data when we die provides the perfect lens for understanding the true power big tech wields over our information and our identities. Elaine appears regularly on Radio 4 and Sky News, she has also spoken at Latitude Festival and was a guest on Warwick Davis and Richard Ayoade’s Future Tense podcast.
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We’re told to disconnect to find ourselves, but what if the most impactful work happens while we’re still plugged in? Devices are blamed for distraction, burnout, and disconnection, the standard response is retreat, detox, ban, switch off. But we live in a permanently connected culture, and simplistic solutions rarely stick. Elaine invites audiences into a radically different kind of digital awareness, using their curiosity, embodiment, and agency. Drawing on her background in cyberpsychology and contemplative practice, she guides participants through live ‘tech meditations’ of reflection with their devices.
Participants will notice the invisible ways their devices shape attention and emotion, explore the magnetic pull of devices from a new perspective and learn to identify and strengthen opportunities for choice and resistance.
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Technology gives us constant access to each other, but not always to each other’s attention. In an age of endless notifications, scrolling, and shared screens, the quality of our closest relationships is increasingly shaped by our digital choices. A distracted dinner, a misread message, or an important moment interrupted with a ping expose how our use of tech can build trust or erode it. Elaine details how technology mediates love, friendship, and family connection, and how we should use it more mindfully. Drawing on expertise in psychology and cyberlife, she helps audiences reflect on the everyday patterns that shape intimacy and belonging, exploring the hidden rituals and ruptures of digital life in close relationships. She offers insights into how to navigate presence, boundaries, and ways to support deeper connection through digital agency, not digital avoidance
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As our lives are increasingly captured in zeros and ones, we stand at the precipice of a crisis due to an overlooked phenomenon: the digital remains left behind by the departed. In today’s world, preparing for the inevitable demise of every client, customer, colleague and loved one isn’t just a niche concern, it’s a necessity. Elaine predicts a future where ‘dead labour’ isn’t metaphorical. In our knowledge economy, the vast vaults of data from those who have died present an untapped reservoir of value. With the capabilities of AI, we’re poised to mine this digital gold. But how far should we go? This isn’t a tale of mere data security or privacy it’s a profound exploration of identity, ethics, the future of our digital society, and what it means to be human. Discover the immense potential, numerous pitfalls and necessary practicalities of navigating the digital afterlife. Look death in the digital eye and prepare for a tomorrow that might be closer to today than you think.
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