Dear all, We are pleased to announce the publication of *Reckoning with Social Media**. *More information below. Tero -- Tero Karppi, PhD Associate Professor, University of Toronto --Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (UTM) --Faculty of Information (St. George) Books: -- Disconnect <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/disconnect> -- Undoing Networks <https://meson.press/books/undoing-networks/> *Reckoning with Social Media* EDITED BY ALEENA CHIA; ANA JORGE AND TERO KARPPI Once celebrated for connecting people and circulating ideas, social media are facing mounting criticisms about their anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy. Known cumulatively as the “techlash,” journalists, users, and politicians are asking social media platforms to account for being too big, too engaging, and too unruly. In the age of the techlash, strategies to regulate how platforms operate technically, economically, and legally, are often stacked against individual tactics to manage the effects of social media by disconnecting from them. These disconnection practices—from restricting screen time and detoxing from device use to deleting apps and accounts—often reinforce rather than confront the ways social media organize attention, everyday life, and society. Reckoning with Social Media challenges the prevailing critique of social media that pits small gestures against big changes, that either celebrates personal transformation or champions structural reformation. This edited volume reframes evaluative claims about disconnection practices as either restorative or reformative of current social media systems by beginning where other studies conclude: the ambivalence, commodification, and complicity of separating from social media. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147405/Reckoning-with-Social-Media ToC Introduction: Reckoning with Social Media in the Pandemic Denouement Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, and Tero Karppi OA PDF: https://rowman.com/webdocs/reckoningwithsocialmediaintroduction.pdf Why Disconnecting Matters? Towards a Critical Research Agenda on Online Disconnection Magdalena Kania-Lundholm The Ontological Insecurity of Disconnecting: A Theory of Echolocation and the Self Annette N. Markham ‘Hey! I’m back after a 24h #DigitalDetox!’: Influencers posing disconnection Ana Jorge and Marco Pedroni Privacy, energy, time and moments stolen: Social media experiences pushing towards disconnection Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne Quitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice Ontology Zeena Feldman Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing Aleena Chia and Alex Beattie OA PDF: https://rowman.com/webdocs/reckoningwithsocialmediachapter6.pdf

From digital detox to 24/365 disconnection: between dependency tactics and resistance strategies in Brazil

Marianna Ferreira Jorge and Julia Salgado Overcoming Forced Disconnection: Disentangling the Professional and the Personal in Pandemic Times Christoffer Bagger and Stine Lomborg Disconnecting on Two Wheels: Bike touring, leisure and reimagining networks Pedro Ferreira and Airi Lampinen Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media Clara Wieghorst