Andrew Culp and Cultural Studies Association’s New Media and Digital Cultures Working Group Co-Chair Claudia Skinner take a look into Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake’s new book Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement: In Search of the Opt-Out Button, published by University of Westminster Press (2022). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Tero Karppi.
Articles by Tero Karppi
Tero Karppi is Associate Professor of Critical Computation and Digital Media at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. For a decade, Karppi has been working on the nascent field of disconnection studies focusing on how social media platforms engage their users and keep them captivated despite emerging desires to quit. He examines the role of social media in our daily lives and investigates how the power of these platforms is designed, established, and enacted. Karppi is the author of Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), one of the authors of Undoing Networks (University of Minnesota Press / Meson 2021), and one of the editors of Reckoning with Social Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).