What is it about?
The article responds to rising social anxieties about being locked into information communication technology ecologies and the difficulty of opting out of corporate information-exchange systems.
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Why is it important?
The work sets out the counter-narratives to overwhelming hyper-connectivity that emerged as a result of constand connectivity and the prevelance of social media in everyday life. Using qualitative interview data from respondents recruited from across the globe, we focus on the strategies and worldviews of those who explicitly reject the use of any information communication technologies. This is one of the few longitudinal studies about social media.
Perspectives
I hope this work allows critical engagement for 'disconnection' around the need for a deepened understanding of the effect on pace of life, methods of work, consumption, and wellbeing. Writing this article sharpened my own sense of pressure being attune to every social media update and [by nature of being an academic] the 'demand' to be responsive all 24 hours in the day. I cannot claim to one of the 'disconnected', but I do admire their commitment and strategies.
Dr Mariann / Maz Hardey
Durham University
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This page is a summary of: Disconnected: Non-Users of Information Communication Technologies, Sociological Research Online, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1360780418764736.
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