Same old story: On non-use and resistance to the telephone and social media

Robin Rymarczuk

Technology in Society, 2016, vol. 45, issue C, 40-47

Abstract: The growing resistance to social media is not a unique story. The telephone, which today is embraced almost completely, was a matter of concern for many. Most people that resisted the phone had privacy concerns and seemed to have intuited the breakdown between distinct spaces like established private space and public space as a threat to psychological integrity. By zooming in on the particular concerns people had at the dawn of the telephone's birth and its early development new light can be shed on the contemporary discussion surrounding social media today.

Keywords: Privacy; Non-use; Technology; Social media; Telephone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2016.02.003

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