Tero Karppi (Book order)

Tero Karppi Book order

Tero Karppi investigates disconnections and failures within social media and network culture. His work emphasizes the non-human actors and agencies involved in our connected world, challenging models that explain social media solely through user participation. Karppi analyzes the mechanisms by which platforms extract value from users, exploring phenomena such as digital suicide, deceased social media profiles, and online trolls. His research bridges media theory, algorithms, and the digital economy to understand the deeper workings of contemporary digital society.

Undoing Networks

Exploring and conceptualizing practices, technologies, and politics of disconnecting How do we think beyond the dominant images and imaginaries of connectivity? Undoing Networks enables a different connectivity: "digital detox" is a luxury for stressed urbanites wishing to lead a mindful life. Self-help books advocate "digital minimalism" to recover authentic experiences of the offline. Artists envision a world without the internet. Activists mobilize against the expansion of the 5G network. If connectivity brought us virtual communities, information superhighways, and participatory culture, disconnection comes with privacy tools, Faraday shields, and figures of the shy. This book explores nonusage and the "right to disconnect" from work and from the excessive demands of digital capitalism.