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Social media face criticisms about anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy, but disconnection practices—restricting, detoxing, deleting—often only reinforce these effects of social media. This book addresses the ambivalence, commodification, and complicity involved in attempts to separate from social media.
About the author
Aleena Chia is lecturer of media, communications, and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her previous appointments include assistant professor at the School of Communication in Simon Fraser University. She researches cultures of creativity in digital game production, social media disconnection, and Silicon Valley spiritual subcultures. Her work has been published in the Internet Policy Review, Journal of Fandom Studies, Television and New Media, and American Behavioral Scientist.Ana Jorge is associate professor of media and communications at Lusófona University. Tero Karppi is associate professor at the University of Toronto. He teaches at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and the Faculty of Information. He is the author of Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds (University of Minnesota Press 2018) and his research has been published in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Social Media + Society, and New Media & Society.
Summary
Social media face criticisms about anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy, but disconnection practices—restricting, detoxing, deleting—often only reinforce these effects of social media. This book addresses the ambivalence, commodification, and complicity involved in attempts to separate from social media.
