Constant Disconnection - Kenzie Burchell

Constant Disconnection

The Weight of Everyday Digital Life

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3979-9 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of working life, home life, and everyday personal life – driving us to engage more with platforms than with people, a new state of constant disconnection that we cannot escape. Overflowing email inboxes, deluges of mobile phone notifications and torrents of social media posts—the flow of communication in its abundance is today's individualized interface for interpersonal and professional practices.


Communication technologies and their use are both the needle and the thread of the wider social tapestry of everyday contemporary life. This ever-changing communication environment is where the neoliberal economic policies of the West and the commercial imperatives of the platform and data-mining industries meet. It is where the contradictions they produce can be felt day-to-day by citizens-turned-users.


How does it feel to live at the pressure points of intersecting economic realities and why does it matter? Drawing on extensive sociological research, Burchell examines how individuals try to manage connection as participation in everyday life and how, on a larger scale, the ever-expanding knowledge, communication, and data-driven economies depend on the very pressures that result from our disparate communication needs. With so much time spent managing the pressures of our communication environment, we often overlook the way media technologies produce systemic tensions that are reshaping how we interact with each other and what we understand to be social connection today.

Kenzie Burchell is Associate Professor of Media, Journalism, and Digital Cultures at the University of Toronto.

Preface: There Are Real People Here

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Disconnected Sociality of Everyday Life

1. Economies of Communication Management

2. Managing Time

3. Managing Connection

4. Practicing Surveillance

5. Practicing Authenticity

6. Practicing Metacommunication

Conclusion: To Count and Be Counted

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Palo Alto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5036-3979-7 / 1503639797
ISBN-13 978-1-5036-3979-9 / 9781503639799
Zustand Neuware
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