Disconnectivity in a Changing Media and Political Landscape: A Multi-Contextual and Interdisciplinary Lens

Qinfeng Zhu and Çiğdem Bozdağ
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Qinfeng Zhu: University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Çiğdem Bozdağ: University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Media and Communication, 2024, vol. 12

Abstract: This thematic issue examines disconnectivity in a world where connectivity is often assumed to be the norm. Drawing on multiple areas of research, such as political unfriending, digital disconnection, migration studies, and media censorship, it delves into the complexities of disconnectivity, moving beyond its framing as voluntary choice and individual practice. Collectively, studies in this issue highlight disconnection as a compelled act for self-protection and a collective strategy to tackle systemic problems. By examining enforced and coerced disconnection, they also reveal disconnection’s dual role as control and resistance. Through a multi-contextual and interdisciplinary lens, this issue challenges the normative assumptions implicit in our current understandings of disconnection, and, in doing so, advances the field.

Keywords: digital disconnection; enforced disconnection; inequality; interpersonal disconnection; political unfriending; power dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.17645/mac.9756

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