Discourses on Disconnectivity and the Right to Disconnect
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Discourses on Disconnectivity and the Right to Disconnect. / Hesselberth, Pepita.
In: New Media & Society, Vol. 20, No. 5, 2018, p. 1994-2010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Discourses on Disconnectivity and the Right to Disconnect
AU - Hesselberth, Pepita
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - disconnectivity
KW - connectivity
KW - digital labour
KW - digital detox
KW - right to disconnect
KW - withdrawal
KW - media resistance
KW - media refusal
KW - technology non-use
KW - media disruption
KW - media avoidance
KW - media pushback
KW - netactivism
KW - paradox
U2 - 10.1177/1461444817711449
DO - 10.1177/1461444817711449
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 30581360
VL - 20
SP - 1994
EP - 2010
JO - New Media & Society
JF - New Media & Society
SN - 1461-4448
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 184320950