Undoing Networks
Published on 18. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-1-5179-0669-6 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting
How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: "digital detox" is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. Self-help books advocate "digital minimalism" to recover authentic experiences of the offline. Artists envision a world without the internet. Activists mobilize against the expansion of the 5G network.
If connectivity brought us virtual communities, information superhighways, and participatory culture, disconnection comes with privacy tools, Faraday shields, and figures of the shy. This book explores nonusage and the "right to disconnect" from work and from the excessive demands of digital capitalism.
How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: "digital detox" is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. Self-help books advocate "digital minimalism" to recover authentic experiences of the offline. Artists envision a world without the internet. Activists mobilize against the expansion of the 5G network.
If connectivity brought us virtual communities, information superhighways, and participatory culture, disconnection comes with privacy tools, Faraday shields, and figures of the shy. This book explores nonusage and the "right to disconnect" from work and from the excessive demands of digital capitalism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5179-0669-6 (9781517906696)
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Tero Karppi is assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He teaches at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology and at the Faculty of Information. He is author of Disconnect: Facebook's Affective Bonds (Minnesota, 2018).
Urs StAEheli is professor of sociology and sociological theory at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is author of Spectacular Speculation: Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse.
Clara Wieghorst is a research associate and PhD student at the Center for Digital Cultures and the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University LUEneburg.
Lea Zierott is a research associate and PhD student at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg.
Urs StAEheli is professor of sociology and sociological theory at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is author of Spectacular Speculation: Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse.
Clara Wieghorst is a research associate and PhD student at the Center for Digital Cultures and the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University LUEneburg.
Lea Zierott is a research associate and PhD student at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg.