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Disentangling - The Geographies of Digital Disconnection (Paperback)
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Digital networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have
revolutionized everyday human interaction by facilitating the
search for, and access to, information, entertainment, and social
connection. But with the rise of digital surveillance and data
extraction for profit, more people are seeking not just to
disconnect from technology but to fully disentangle themselves from
the widespread social, economic, and political networks of digital
communications. Disentangling offers an interdisciplinary global
analysis of this growing trend toward disconnection. Moving beyond
technological disconnection, this volume proposes the term
"disentangling" as a lens for re-thinking the structures of our
digital world and categorizing the ways in which people reject,
avoid, or rework their digital networks. Across twelve chapters,
contributors explore the existential issues stemming from digitally
entangled lives, including cultural capital and digital "detox"
retreats, and investigate how geographies of disconnection relate
to wider societal challenges. Additional chapters explore
connections between digital disconnection and other forms of
disconnection, including death, sleep, and the abandonment of human
settlements. The volume closes with a reflection on connectivity in
the post-pandemic society and how we might rework our connections
to fit a "socially distanced" world. Blending philosophy and
sociology with media geography, Disentangling offers a crucial
reflection on how we might unravel our digital dependence by
reasserting resilient boundaries between ourselves and the
surrounding political, economic, cultural, and technological
systems.
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