Adele Zeynep Walton is a journalist, online safety campaigner and the author of Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World. She is also 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. She is also the co-founder of Logging Off Club, which brings people together offline at phone free events to reconnect and promote connection, curiosity and wellness.

Adele is an online safety campaigner with Families and Survivors to Prevent Online Suicide Harm and Bereaved Families for Online Safety. She is also a member of the Online Safety Act Network, Founding Member of Ctrl + Alt + Reclaim, NextGen Advisor at the Sustainable Media Center and Youth Leader of the For Us coalition.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Adele’s debut book Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World published June 2025 and received coverage in The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, the i, The Mirror, Radio 4’s Start The Week, Al Jazeera, Times Radio, CBC News, LBC Radio, Sky News, France 24, Channel 4, MTV Finland and Ireland AM.

Adele regularly speaks in the media and at events on topics including harmful online content, digital misogyny, addictive algorithms, smartphone bans and digital wellbeing.

To book Adele, get in touch with NEON or SpeakUp.