[Commlist] New book: Reckoning with Social Media

New Edited Book:

*Reckoning with Social Media*

Edited by Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge and Tero Karppi

Once 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.

Reckoning 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.


https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147405/Reckoning-with-Social-Media



ToC

Introduction: Reckoning with Social Media in the Pandemic Denouement
Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, and Tero Karppi
OA PDF:

https://rowman.com/webdocs/reckoningwithsocialmediaintroduction.pdf


Why Disconnecting Matters? Towards a Critical Research Agenda on Online 
Disconnection
Magdalena Kania-Lundholm


The Ontological Insecurity of Disconnecting: A Theory of Echolocation 
and the Self
Annette N. Markham


‘Hey! I’m back after a 24h #DigitalDetox!’: Influencers posing
disconnection
Ana Jorge and Marco Pedroni


Privacy, energy, time and moments stolen: Social media experiences 
pushing towards disconnection
Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne


Quitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice Ontology
Zeena Feldman


Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing
Aleena Chia and Alex Beattie
OA PDF:

https://rowman.com/webdocs/reckoningwithsocialmediachapter6.pdf


> From digital detox to 24/365 disconnection: between dependency tactics and resistance strategies in Brazil
Marianna Ferreira Jorge and Julia Salgado


Overcoming Forced Disconnection: Disentangling the Professional and the 
Personal in Pandemic Times
Christoffer Bagger and Stine Lomborg


Disconnecting on Two Wheels: Bike touring, leisure and reimagining networks
Pedro Ferreira and Airi Lampinen


Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media
Clara Wieghorst

For more information contact:

Aleena Chia ((a.chia /at/ gold.ac.uk))

Ana Jorge ((ana.jorge /at/ ulusofona.pt))

Tero Karppi ((tero.karppi /at/ utoronto.ca))

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