Disconnected: The Morrison Family's Digital Rebellion

“Disconnected: The Morrison Family’s Digital Rebellion” is a thought-provoking book that examines how technology influences contemporary family life. The novel traces the lives of David and Emma Morrison and their children Tyler and Zoe as they discover how digital technology has erected invisible walls between them even though they share the same roof. The story opens with a Yellowstone vacation of the family in which David sees everyone obsessed with checking their devices even amidst stunning natural beauty. This serves as an eye-opener on how technology has splintered their attention and ties. Every member of the family lives in his or her own algorithm-driven reality; Emma with professional content Tyler with increasingly politicized YouTube videos and Zoe with influencer-saturated social media. As the story unfolds the Morrisons experience a series of crises: Tyler has social mediarelated anxiety Zoe has body-image problems from “thinspiration” challenges and all of them have fractured focus and superficial interactions. These breaking points propel them into an “Attention Reclamation Project” incrementally claiming device-free spaces and periods and rediscovering richer connections. The novel grows outward from the family as they make their experience available to other parents building a community movement for digital wellbeing. Tyler and Zoe become change makers in their own right; Tyler creating attention-respecting technology and Zoe teaching younger students about healthy social media usage. By the epilogue five years later the Morrisons have not forsaken technology but have found a balanced integration employing it purposefully instead of defensively. The novel ultimately presents a positive vision of how families can restore human connection in a more digital world.