Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life

The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of working life, home life, and everyday...
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Author: Kenzie Burchell
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Language: English
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Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life by Burchell, Kenzie

Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life

$114.75

Constant Disconnection: The Weight of Everyday Digital Life

$114.75
Author: Kenzie Burchell
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Kenzie Burchell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781503639799

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

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