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Disconnecting with social networking sites /

"Ben Light puts forward an alternative way of thinking about how we engage with social networking sites, going beyond the emphasis upon connectivity that has been associated with research in the area to date. Analysing our engagements and disengagements with social networking sites in public (i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Light, Ben
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:
Online social networks.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Onlinecommunity.
Soziales Netzwerk.
Internet.
Vernetzung.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Appropriating Social Networking Sites
  • 1. The Connectivity Conundrum
  • 2. PART I: THEORISING TECHNOLOGICAL APPROPRIATION
  • 3. Acknowledging Mediators
  • PART II: PUBLIC DISCONNECTION
  • 4. Shaping Publics
  • 5. Navigating Work
  • PART III: PERSONAL DISCONNECTION
  • 6. Personalising Use
  • 7. Disclosing Health and Wellbeing
  • PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
  • 8. Towards a Theory of Disconnective Practice
  • References.