I’m Adele, the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World. I’m an online safety campaigner and journalist reporting on the human impacts of digital technology and social media, and the co-founder of Logging Off Club.

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About

Adele Zeynep Walton is a British-Turkish journalist reporting on the human impacts of digital technology and social media, and the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World, which publishes June 2025.

Adele is an online safety campaigner with Bereaved Families for Online Safety and Ctrl + Alt + Reclaim, a Europe-wide youth movement to reclaim our digital world. She is also a youth ambassador with People Vs Big Tech and Connected By Data fellow.

She is also the founder of Logging Off Club, which brings people together offline at phone free events to reconnect and promote connection, curiosity and wellness.

  • Logging Off is a life-saving book. It's an essential deep-dive into the digital world that everyone needs to read. An important, fascinating, heart-filled page-turner of a debut.

    - Mikaela Loach, author of IT'S NOT THAT RADICAL

  • A vital commentary for anyone wanting to better understand our dangerous digital world. Logging Off offers a thought-provoking digital stocktake, a must read for concerned parents and for all who want to more safely navigate the technological perils we all face today.

    - Ian Russell MBE, Chair of MOLLY ROSE FOUNDATION

  • Logging Off is a deeply moving and powerfully argued expose of the technologies that have come to dominate our lives. You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book.

    - Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM

  • Logging Off is a vital wake-up call and an urgent call to action for reclaiming our digital lives is now.

    - Daisy Greenwell, Director, SMARTPHONE FREE CHILDHOOD

  • Logging Off is a necessary and urgent account of the human cost of social media. Adele does an extraordinary job of helping understand the preventable harm that young people are experiencing. If you are a parent, lawmaker, or work in social media, Logging Off is a must read.

    - Arturo Bejar, META WHISTLEBLOWER

  • A harrowing but important read from a member of the rising generation of young people who've experienced first hand the dangers of out of control tech companies and killer algorithms.

    Carole Cadwalladr, THE GUARDIAN

A lifelong bookworm, Adele was Dazed’s first ever political book columnist between 2023 and 2024. She has collaborated on content with a range of publishers to promote political education and youth participation in positive social change, including Penguin, Verso Books, Pluto Press, SquarePeg, Left Book Club, Headline and more. She has over 3 million views and 500,000 likes on TikTok. Adele is also the Website Editor for Naked Politics.

Adele has a vast range of expertise in digital communications and PR, both in a freelance and in-house capacity, specialising in digital content strategy for progressive communications and campaigns. Charity work includes being Press Officer for Oxfam, Training Assistant for Friends, Families and Travellers, and volunteering with Amnesty, VSO, Wateraid, The World Transformed and Roma Support Group. Adele is a First Class graduate in International Development from the University of Sussex.

Adele is represented by Megan Staunton, at literary agency Bergstrom Studio.