Disentangling

The Geographies of Digital Disconnection
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-757187-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Digital networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized everyday human interaction by facilitating the search for, and access to, information, entertainment, and social connection. But with the rise of digital surveillance and data extraction for profit, more people are seeking not just to disconnect from technology but to fully disentangle themselves from the widespread social, economic, and political networks of digital communications.

Disentangling offers an interdisciplinary global analysis of this growing trend toward disconnection. Moving beyond technological disconnection, this volume proposes the term "disentangling" as a lens for re-thinking the structures of our digital world and categorizing the ways in which people reject, avoid, or rework their digital networks. Across twelve chapters, contributors explore the existential issues stemming from digitally entangled lives, including cultural capital and digital "detox" retreats, and investigate how geographies of disconnection relate to wider societal challenges. Additional chapters explore connections between digital disconnection and other forms of disconnection, including death, sleep, and the abandonment of human settlements. The volume closes with a reflection on connectivity in the post-pandemic society and how we might rework our connections to fit a "socially distanced" world.

Blending philosophy and sociology with media geography, Disentangling offers a crucial reflection on how we might unravel our digital dependence by reasserting resilient boundaries between ourselves and the surrounding political, economic, cultural, and technological systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansson, André

Adams, Paul C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments

- Contributor List

- Introduction: Rethinking the Disentangling Force of Connective Media

- Paul C. Adams and André Jansson

- Part I: Power Geometries of Connectivity

- Chapter 1: Disconnection and Reconnection as Resistance to Geosurveillance

- David Swanlund

- Chapter 2: Locational Technologies in Post-disaster Infrastructure Space: Uneven Access to OpenStreetMap in Post-earthquake Haiti

- Mimi Sheller

- Chapter 3: Disconnection as Distinction: A Bourdieusian Study of Where People Withdraw from Digital Media

- Karin Fast, Johan Lindell, and André Jansson

- Chapter 4: Digital Disconnection as Othering: Immersion, 'Authenticity,' and the Politics of Experience

- Neriko Musha Doerr

- Part II: (Dis)connected Lives

- Chapter 5: Automating Digital Afterlives

- Robbie Fordyce, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, and Martin Gibbs

- Chapter 6: Senses and Sensors of Sleep: Mediation and Disconnection in Sleep Architectures

- Bjorn Nansen, Kate Mannell, and Christopher O'Neill

- Chapter 7: Digital Ruins: Virtual Worlds as Landscapes of Disconnection

- Gonzalo C. Garcia and Vincent Miller

- Chapter 8: 'Think on Paper, Share Online': Interrogating the Sense of Slowness and Disconnection in the Rise of Shouzhang in China

- Yan Yuan

- Part III: Rethinking Disconnection in a Disrupted World

- Chapter 9: Disconnect to Reconnect! Self-help to Regain an Authentic Sense of Space through Digital Detoxing

- Gunn Enli and Trine Syvertsen

- Chapter 10: Retreat Culture and Therapeutic Disconnection

- Pepita Hesselberth

- Chapter 11: Networked Intimacies: Pandemic Dis/Connections between Anxiety, Joy, and Pleasure

- Jenny Sundén

- Chapter 12: Paradoxes of Disconnected Connection

- Paul C. Adams, Vivie Behrens, Steven Hoelscher, Olga Lavrenova, Heath Robinson, and Yan Yuan

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, where he is also director of the Geomedia Research Group.

Paul C. Adams is Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founder of the Media Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His research bridges between media studies, communication theory and human geography.