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

Light, BA; Cassidy, E

Authors

E Cassidy



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
Related Public URLs http://journals.sagepub.com/home/nms