{"product_id":"reckoning-with-social-media-9781538147429","title":"Reckoning with Social Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReckoning 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reckoning with Social Media in the Pandemic Denouement\u003cbr\u003eAleena Chia, Ana Jorge, and Tero Karppi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefining Disconnection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhy Disconnecting Matters? Towards a Critical Research Agenda on Online Disconnection \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagdalena Kania-Lundholm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Ontological Insecurity of Disconnecting: A Theory of Echolocation and the Self\u003cbr\u003eAnnette N. Markham\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesiring Disconnection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e‘Hey! I’m back after a 24h #DigitalDetox!’: Influencers posing disconnection \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Jorge and Marco Pedroni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrivacy, energy, time and moments stolen: Social media experiences pushing towards disconnection\u003cbr\u003eTrine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eQuitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice Ontology\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eZeena Feldman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigning Disconnection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eEthics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAleena Chia and Alex Beattie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eFrom digital detox to 24\/365 disconnection: between dependency tactics and resistance strategies in Brazil\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianna Ferreira Jorge and Julia Salgado\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelaying Disconnection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eOvercoming Forced Disconnection: Disentangling the Professional and the Personal in Pandemic Times\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristoffer Bagger and Stine Lomborg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eDisconnecting on Two Wheels: Bike touring, leisure and reimagining networks\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePedro Ferreira and Airi Lampinen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnalogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media\u003cbr\u003eClara Wieghorst\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041187365207,"sku":"9781538147429","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538147429.jpg?v=1750949267","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reckoning-with-social-media-9781538147429","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}