Journal
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 1994-2010Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1461444817711449
Keywords
Connectivity; culture of connectivity; digital detox; disconnectivity; media disruption; media refusal; media resistance; paradox of dis; connectivity; right to disconnect; technology non-use
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- Danish Council for Independent Research Humanities \ Culture Communication [5050-00043B]
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Taking the right to disconnect discussion as a starting point, this article considers how the im/possibility of opting out is ruminated in scholarly discourses on technology non-use, media resistance, and media disruption. I argue that while very different in scope, these discourses converge in that they all revolve around a structuring paradox. On one hand, this paradox is set in place by the paradox of dis/connectivity itself (no disconnectivity without connectivity). On the other hand, I argue, it is incited and reinforced by the use of scholarly methods that appear to be at odds with the gesture of disconnectivity itself, whether they be empirical, discursive, or technical (or legislative). This article stakes a claim for the importance looking at these discourses on dis/connectivity from the point of view of this structuring paradox, for it is here, I argue, that the limits of our current culture of connectivity are most forcefully negotiated.
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