Disconnecting with social networking sites (Record no. 26069)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2014024354
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781137022462
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 302.30285
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Light, Ben
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Disconnecting with social networking sites
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ben Light
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York :
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan,
Date c2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vii, 191 p. ;
Size 22 cm.
SUMMARY
Summary 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 with 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 emphasizes the importance of disconnection instead of connection. The book, therefore, 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. Light argues that diversity in the exercise of power is crucial to understanding disconnective practice where social networking sites are concerned, and he suggests that the ethics of disconnection may also require interrogation
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Online social networks
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Topical Heading SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Topical Heading SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Topical Heading SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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Holdings
Date last seen Full call number Barcode Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Permanent location Current location Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition
26/01/2017 302.30285 LI DI T0051090 80.75 26/01/2017 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 08/03/2015 AMAUS