Titlebook: Disconnecting with Social Networking Sites; Ben Light Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 health

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etworking sites in public, at work, in our personal lives and as related to our health and wellbeing, emphasizing the importance of disconnection instead of connection.978-1-349-43787-0978-1-137-02247-9

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Shaping Publicsht participate with SNSs in the mediation of public life, and more specifically public life that goes beyond the boundaries of work and home — for example, in cafés, as we shop and as we commute. Related to this, I want to consider SNSs in terms of how they and we are implicated in the construction

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Navigating Works. The blurring of contemporary home and work is not restricted to cottage industries or farming; for example, developments in information and communication technologies have facilitated the rise of home-based working for certain occupational groups. The debate regarding the boundary between home an

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Personalising Usey 2009); approaches to privacy (Gross and Acquisti 2005, Patchin and Hinduja 2010); the development of social capital (Joinson 2008) and even connection just for connection’s sake (Miller 2008). Moreover, as I have already shown, it is a key feature of the work I present here. Indeed, as Nina recoun

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Disclosing Health and Wellbeing demonstrate this is possible (Griffiths and Casswell 2010). However, we now have a wealth of research that demonstrates that social networks are a setting where social support can be experienced and exchanged (Cant 2004) and that even work prior to the development of SNSs suggested that the Interne

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Towards a Theory of Disconnective Practicestion of them being a fad, I am not sure — it depends upon what timeframe we are talking about. Are they ultimately useless? Well, I think the past ten years of their existence and our academic research demonstrates the potential for both utility and a lack of it where SNSs are concerned. Overall th

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