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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.
Sommario
Introduction: Reckoning with Social Media in the Pandemic Denouement
Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, and Tero Karppi
Defining Disconnection
Why Disconnecting Matters? Towards a Critical Research Agenda on Online Disconnection Magdalena Kania-Lundholm
The Ontological Insecurity of Disconnecting: A Theory of Echolocation and the Self
Annette N. MarkhamDesiring Disconnection
'Hey! I'm back after a 24h #DigitalDetox!': Influencers posing disconnection Ana Jorge and Marco Pedroni
Privacy, energy, time and moments stolen: Social media experiences pushing towards disconnection
Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-ArneQuitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice OntologyZeena Feldman
Designing Disconnection
Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing Aleena Chia and Alex Beattie
From digital detox to 24/365 disconnection: between dependency tactics and resistance strategies in BrazilMarianna Ferreira Jorge and Julia Salgado
Delaying Disconnection
Overcoming Forced Disconnection: Disentangling the Professional and the Personal in Pandemic TimesChristoffer Bagger and Stine Lomborg
Disconnecting on Two Wheels: Bike touring, leisure and reimagining networksPedro Ferreira and Airi Lampinen
Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media
Clara Wieghorst
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Edited by Aleena Chia; Ana Jorge and Tero Karppi
Riassunto
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.
