The masculine urge to rawdog life : male paranoia and the gendering of digital detox

Markelj, Jernej (avtor), Kemper, Jakko (avtor)

This article engages with the online trend of ‘rawdogging’ flights—where men endure long flights without any distractions, entertainment or amenities—to analyse the gendered logic behind digital detox cultures. We investigate this trend, a typical instanceof digital detox, as a hegemonically masculine practice of resistance to what are experienced as the feminizing forces of digital technologies. Our contention is that this experience of emasculating stimulation is shaped by the tendency of networked devices to structure subjectivity in ways predominantly defined by vibes, flows and the capture of affect and attention. The immersive volatility of digital environments challenges perceptual control and corrodes the autonomous agency of the male self, thus triggering a defensive push-back. We conceptualise this response as a form of paranoid masculinity, which relentlessly polices the boundaries of the self and obsessively shores up fantasies of autonomy, rationality and (self-)control to ward off the supposedly emasculating forces of alterity, emotion and stimulation.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: rawdogging, media stimulation, paranoid masculinities, feminizing technologies, digital detox
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 22.06.2026
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: Str. 75-100
• Številčenje: Vol. 10, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-185013
• UDK: 316.77
• ISSN pri članku: 2557-826X
• DOI: 10.70064/mt.v10i1.1368
• COBISS.SI-ID: 285449987
• Datum objave v RUL: 20.07.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Media theory
• Skrajšan naslov: Media theory
• Založnik: S. Dawes, Trent University Library & Archive
• ISSN: 2557-826X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 185175555

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: doživljanje brez zunanjih dražljajev, medijska stimulacija, dražljaji, paranoidne maskulinosti, feminizirajoče tehnologije, digitalni detoks, moški, tehnologija, digitalni mediji