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Katrin Tiidenberg

Emily van der Nagel

Sex is not only on social media, but social media shapes how we do and think about sex. What practices, norms, anxieties and identities arise when the two intersect?

Based on years of research on various sexual social media practices on different platforms Sex and Social Media offers a curious reader an academically informed yet accessible discussion of the nuances of sexual social media and socially mediated sex. The book opens up a much-needed discussion around how social media – as both technology and a corporate service - shapes how we perceive and practice sex today.

Kelly Burke

Emerald Publishing

SocietyNow

Sex and Social Media

Trine Syvertsen

Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy. In this book, Trine Syvertsen explores the phenomenon of digital detox: users taking a break from digital media or adopting measures to limit smartphone and social media use. Based on studies, documents, media texts and interviews with media users, Syvertsen discusses how media industries intensify the quest for attention, how companies and governments team up to get everybody online, and how the main responsibility for managing online risks and problems are placed on the users' shoulders. She provides a rich account of how users reduce their online engagement through time-limitations, restrictions on smartphone use, productivity apps, and use of analogue media. Syvertsen shows how digital detoxing has much in common with other forms of self-help such as mindfulness, decluttering and simple living and places digital detox within a culture of self-optimisation. But digital detox is also about sustaining face-to-face conversations, better work-life-balance, a deeper connection with nature and more meaningful interpersonal relationships. With a wealth of examples, analyses and stories, Digital Detox is a valuable guide to why digital detox and disconnection has become a topic, how it is practised, what it says about the state of media industries and how people express resistance in the 21st century.

Laurel Lefkow

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

SocietyNow is a topical series of short, readable and accessible books, written by leading experts, on the events, phenomena and issues that define our 21st century world. Publishing quickly to provide a rapid response to a fast-changing world, the series covers political and economic events, and social and cultural trends, building to an authoritative collection of titles that explore and explain why our society is the way it is, now. SocietyNow makes the complexities of our world clear, drawing on the best scholarly minds to make the key issues of our times accessible to a wider audience.