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010			_a 2014024354
020			_a9781137022462
082	0	0	_a302.30285
100	1		_aLight, Ben _943507
245	1	0	_aDisconnecting with social networking sites _cBen Light
260			_aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _cc2014.
300			_avii, 191 p. ; _c22 cm.
520			_aBen 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
650		0	_aOnline social networks _95603
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture _96913
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General _910636
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies _95749
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