[Commlist] new book: Undoing Networks

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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*Receive a 20% discount online*:*

*CSLS2021*

*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 31st December 2021. Discount only applies to the 
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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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