Disentangling

André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, where he is also director of the Geomedia Research Group.Paul C. Adams is Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the founder of the Media Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. His research bridges between media studies, communication theory and human geography.

This collection offers a brilliant series of reflections on our increasingly ambivalent response to the digital tendrils that captivate and capture us. The result is a profound and riveting meditation on the fate of sociality in our increasingly networked world.

• AcknowledgmentsContributor List Introduction: Rethinking the Disentangling Force of Connective Media Paul C. Adams and André Jansson Part I: Power Geometries of Connectivity Chapter 1: Disconnection and Reconnection as Resistance to GeosurveillanceDavid Swanlund Chapter 2: Locational Technologies in Post-disaster Infrastructure Space: Uneven Access to OpenStreetMap in Post-earthquake Haiti Mimi Sheller Chapter 3: Disconnection as Distinction: A Bourdieusian Study of Where People Withdraw from Digital Media Karin Fast, Johan Lindell, and André Jansson Chapter 4: Digital Disconnection as Othering: Immersion, 'Authenticity,' and the Politics of ExperienceNeriko Musha Doerr Part II: (Dis)connected Lives Chapter 5: Automating Digital AfterlivesRobbie Fordyce, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, and Martin Gibbs Chapter 6: Senses and Sensors of Sleep: Mediation and Disconnection in Sleep ArchitecturesBjorn Nansen, Kate Mannell, and Christopher O'Neill Chapter 7: Digital Ruins: Virtual Worlds as Landscapes of DisconnectionGonzalo C. Garcia and Vincent Miller Chapter 8: 'Think on Paper, Share Online': Interrogating the Sense of Slowness and Disconnection in the Rise of Shouzhang in ChinaYan Yuan Part III: Rethinking Disconnection in a Disrupted World Chapter 9: Disconnect to Reconnect! Self-help to Regain an Authentic Sense of Space through Digital DetoxingGunn Enli and Trine Syvertsen Chapter 10: Retreat Culture and Therapeutic DisconnectionPepita Hesselberth Chapter 11: Networked Intimacies: Pandemic Dis/Connections between Anxiety, Joy, and PleasureJenny Sundén Chapter 12: Paradoxes of Disconnected ConnectionPaul C. Adams, Vivie Behrens, Steven Hoelscher, Olga Lavrenova, Heath Robinson, and Yan Yuan Index