Description: Disconnect : Fac's Affective Bonds, Hardcover by Karppi, Tero, ISBN 1517903068, ISBN-13 9781517903060, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it No matter how pervasive and powerful social media websites become, users always have the option of disconnecting&;right? Not exactly, as Tero Karppi reveals in this disquieting book. Pointing out that platforms like Fac see disconnection as an existential threat&;and have undertaken wide-ranging efforts to eliminate it&;Karppi argues that users&; ability to control their lives is gradually dissipating. Taking a nonhumancentric approach, Karppi explores how modern social media platforms produce and position users within a system of coded relations and mechanisms of power. For Fac, disconnection is an intense affective force. It is a problem of how to keep users engaged with the platform, but also one of keeping value, attention, and desires within the system. Karppi uses Fac&;s financial documents as a map to navigate how the platform sees its users. Fac&;s plans to connect the entire globe through satellites and drones illustrates the material webs woven to keep us connected. Karppi analyzes how Fac&;s interface limits the opportunity to opt-out&;even continuing to engage users after their physical death. Showing how users have fought to take back their lives, Karppi chronicles responses like Suicide Machine, an art project dedicated to committing suicide. For Karppi, understanding social media connectivity comes from unbinding the bonds that stop people from leaving these platforms. Disconnection brings us to the limit of user policies, algorithmic control, and platform politics. Ultimately, Karppi&;s focus on the difficulty of disconnection, rather than the ease of connection, reveals how social media has come to dominate human relations.
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Book Title: Disconnect : Facebook's Affective Bonds
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Disconnect : Facebook's Affective Bonds
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Popular Culture, General, Interpersonal Relations, Sociology / Social Theory
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Tero Karppi
Subject Area: Computers, Social Science, Psychology
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
