Strategies for the suspension and prevention of connection : rendering disconnection as socioeconomic lubricant with Facebook

Light, BA; Cassidy, E

Abstract

This article attends to the idea of disconnection as a way of theorising people’s lived experience of social networking sites. Enrolling and extending a disconnective practice lens, we suggest that the disconnective strategies of suspension and prevention are operational necessities for those we might see as the users and owners of sites such as Facebook. Indeed, our work demonstrates that disconnection in these contexts need not be associated only with modes of resistance and departure, but can also act as socioeconomic lubricant.

Citation

Light, B., & Cassidy, E. (2014). Strategies for the suspension and prevention of connection : rendering disconnection as socioeconomic lubricant with Facebook. New Media and Society, 16(7), 1169-1184. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814544002

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jul 24, 2014
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 31, 2017
• Journal: New Media & Society
• Print ISSN: 1461-4448
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 1169-1184
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814544002
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444814544002
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