Disconnecting with social networking sites

Resource Information

The work Disconnecting with social networking sites represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Disconnecting with social networking sites

Statement of responsibility

Ben Light

Creator

• Light, Ben

Subject

• Online social networks
• Onlinecommunity
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
• Internet
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Soziales Netzwerk
• Vernetzung
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Language

eng

Summary

"Ben Light puts forward an alternative way of thinking about how we engage with social networking sites, going beyond the emphasis upon connectivity that has been associated with research in the area to date. Analysing our engagements and disengagements with social networking sites in public (in cafes and at bus stops), at work (at desks, photocopiers and whilst cleaning), in our personal lives (where we cull friends and gossip on backchannels) and as related to our health and wellbeing (where we restrict our updates), he emphasizes the importance of disconnection instead of connection. The book, therefore, produces a theory of disconnective practice. This theory requires our attention to geographies of disconnection that include relations with a site, within a site, between sites and between sites and a physical world. Light argues that diversity in the exercise of power is crucial to understanding disconnective practice where social networking sites are concerned, and he suggests that the ethics of disconnection may also require interrogation"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

302.30285

Index

index present

LC call number

HM742

LC item number

.L54 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography