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Blending philosophy and sociology with media geography,
Disentangling offers a crucial reflection on how we might unravel our digital dependence by reasserting resilient boundaries between ourselves and the surrounding political, economic, cultural, and technological systems.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributor List
- Introduction: Rethinking the Disentangling Force of Connective Media
- Paul C. Adams and André Jansson
- Part I: Power Geometries of Connectivity
- Chapter 1: Disconnection and Reconnection as Resistance to Geosurveillance
- David Swanlund
- Chapter 2: Locational Technologies in Post-disaster Infrastructure Space: Uneven Access to OpenStreetMap in Post-earthquake Haiti
- Mimi Sheller
- Chapter 3: Disconnection as Distinction: A Bourdieusian Study of Where People Withdraw from Digital Media
- Karin Fast, Johan Lindell, and André Jansson
- Chapter 4: Digital Disconnection as Othering: Immersion, 'Authenticity,' and the Politics of Experience
- Neriko Musha Doerr
- Part II: (Dis)connected Lives
- Chapter 5: Automating Digital Afterlives
- Robbie Fordyce, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, and Martin Gibbs
- Chapter 6: Senses and Sensors of Sleep: Mediation and Disconnection in Sleep Architectures
- Bjorn Nansen, Kate Mannell, and Christopher O'Neill
- Chapter 7: Digital Ruins: Virtual Worlds as Landscapes of Disconnection
- Gonzalo C. Garcia and Vincent Miller
- Chapter 8: 'Think on Paper, Share Online': Interrogating the Sense of Slowness and Disconnection in the Rise of Shouzhang in China
- Yan Yuan
- Part III: Rethinking Disconnection in a Disrupted World
- Chapter 9: Disconnect to Reconnect! Self-help to Regain an Authentic Sense of Space through Digital Detoxing
- Gunn Enli and Trine Syvertsen
- Chapter 10: Retreat Culture and Therapeutic Disconnection
- Pepita Hesselberth
- Chapter 11: Networked Intimacies: Pandemic Dis/Connections between Anxiety, Joy, and Pleasure
- Jenny Sundén
- Chapter 12: Paradoxes of Disconnected Connection
- Paul C. Adams, Vivie Behrens, Steven Hoelscher, Olga Lavrenova, Heath Robinson, and Yan Yuan
- Index
About the author
André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, where he is also director of the Geomedia Research Group.
Paul C. Adams is Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founder of the Media Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His research bridges between media studies, communication theory and human geography.
Summary
Blending philosophy and sociology with media geography, Disentangling offers a crucial reflection on how we might unravel our digital dependence by reasserting resilient boundaries between ourselves and the surrounding political, economic, cultural, and technological systems.
Additional text
In today's hyperconnected world, it is imperative to understand the geographies, experiences, and impacts of digital disconnection. Disentangling offers an important intervention for anyone seeking to understand what it means for people and places to switch off.
