Disconnecting with Social Networking Sites
By Ben Light. 2014
119 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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 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 emphasises the importance of disconnection instead of connection. The book 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. Attention to disconnectors, as human and non-human is required, and the modes by which disconnection can occur can then be revealed. Light argues that diversity in the exercise of power is key to understanding disconnective practice where social networking sites are concerned, and he suggests that the ethics of disconnection may also require interrogation.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
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In Sociology and Political Science
- Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
- Avery E. Holton
- Ben Light
- Stefanie Duguay
- Jean Burgess
- Logan Molyneux
- Diana Bossio
- Joëlle Swart
Citations in the corpus
- The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps (2018, background): “…is not just a question of considering users as markets in the capitalist sense (though this may be important), it also examines conceptions the app conveys about activities it is supposed to provide, support or enable (Light et. al., 2008; Papacharissi, 2009; Light and Mcgrath 2010; Light, 2014).”
- “Not Their Fault, but Their Problem”: Organizational Responses to the Online Harassment of Journalists (2021, background): “This feeling can have a negative impact on journalists’ sense of professional self and work satisfaction, leading them to disengage at work or possibly burn out from the profession completely (see Bossio and Holton 2019; Light 2014; Light and Cassidy 2014).”