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[Commlist] new book: Undoing Networks

Mon Jun 21 20:24:38 GMT 2021





We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Minnesota Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Undoing Networks***

*Tero Karppi, Urs Stäheli, Clara Wieghorst & Lea Zierott***

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517906696/undoing-networks/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517906696/undoing-networks/> *__*

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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.

*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 Stäheli*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 Lüneburg.

*Lea Zierott*is a research associate and PhD student at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg.

*University of Minnesota Press**| In Search of Media | March 2021 | 126pp | 9781517906696 | PB | £13.99**

*Price subject to change.

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