Reckoning with Social Media
Reckoning with Social Media
Description
Once celebrated for connecting people and circulating ideas, social media are facing mounting criticisms about their anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy. Known cumulatively as the “techlash,” journalists, users, and politicians are asking social media platforms to account for being too big, too engaging, and too unruly. In the age of the techlash, strategies to regulate how platforms operate technically, economically, and legally, are often stacked against individual tactics to manage the effects of social media by disconnecting from them. These disconnection practices—from restricting screen time and detoxing from device use to deleting apps and accounts—often reinforce rather than confront the ways social media organize attention, everyday life, and society.
Reckoning with Social Media challenges the prevailing critique of social media that pits small gestures against big changes, that either celebrates personal transformation or champions structural reformation. This edited volume reframes evaluative claims about disconnection practices as either restorative or reformative of current social media systems by beginning where other studies conclude: the ambivalence, commodification, and complicity of separating from social media.
Table of Contents
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. Markham
Desiring 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-Arne
Quitting 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
Product details
| Published | 04 Nov 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9798881850579 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Illustrations | 6 b/w illustrations; 2 tables; |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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