Undoing Networks

Tero Karppi; Urs Stäheli; Clara Wieghorst; Lea Zierott

Undoing Networks

Tero Karppi
, Urs Stäheli
, Clara Wieghorst
, Lea Zierott

Professur für Soziologie der Organisation und der Kultur

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Minneapolis
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages	126
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5179-0669-6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781452959740
Publication status	Published - 02.2021

Publication series

Name	In Search of Media
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press & Meson Press

Research areas and keywords

Digital media
Media and communication studies

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