Reckoning with Social Media

Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, Tero Karppi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-4742-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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 a research coordinator at CICANT and associate professor at Lusófona University. Ana is a Media and Cultural Studies scholar and researches children, youth and media, audiences, celebrity culture, and digital culture. Her scholarship appears in journals such as Celebrity Studies, Social Media and Society, Journal of Children and Media, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. 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.

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. 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 Ontology

Zeena 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 Brazil

Marianna Ferreira Jorge and Julia Salgado

Delaying Disconnection

Overcoming Forced Disconnection: Disentangling the Professional and the Personal in Pandemic Times

Christoffer Bagger and Stine Lomborg

Disconnecting on Two Wheels: Bike touring, leisure and reimagining networks

Pedro Ferreira and Airi Lampinen

Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media
Clara Wieghorst

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2023
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 230 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-4742-4 / 1538147424
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-4742-9 / 9781538147429
Zustand	Neuware