About 1 in 15 youth ages 16-19 are neither in school nor working.

Learn more about opportunity youth: https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/707/disconnected-youth-10k/table#fmt=1007&loc=1,2&tf=156&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc

#FactOfTheDay #Education #Disconnection #Opportunity

In the spirit of academic generosity, we'll be launching a bibliographic collection on #disconnection (on Zotero)
#onandoff

Join us on Feb 27th, 2pm UTC - reg: http://shorturl.at/biqX3

The #ColdWar was global, and it crashed on Africa like a wave. But the superpower ideologies had to contend with pre-existing belief systems there, like Islam and traditional religions. 🕌
Our new fellow, @KathiWiiii, is researching that #disconnection.
Welcome Katharina!

Digital Politics and the Politics of Disengagement: social justice, data justice, environmental justice*, by Adi Kuntsman - 2^nd of February 2023 – 6.30pm CET from John Cabot University, Rome and https://youtu.be/WPcuoe0blDs #disconnection

#xmas not always the most wonderful time of the year… ❤️‍🩹 #support #loneliness #disconnection

@lucifermorningstar #elonmusk is available as an exemplar. He has 4000 odd irate ex-employees who could assist and it can probably be done without #knocking down the #door since it seems the #disconnection of swipe cards is occurring well behind the numbers becoming #exemployees.

This of course means the buildings remain useful and could be homes for large furry Pachyderms with little or no money and a raft of voluntary carers.

#JoinIn

#Disconnection news II: "This research project aims to critically examine the discourses of disconnective media and develop a theoretical argument to explain how these discourses find a basis in real, material social structures. The theoretical framework comprises neoliberal governmentality (Foucault et al. 1988; Rose 1996), and the materiality of discourse (Cloud 1994)." https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/154956/

#Disconnection news: "This chapter primarily focuses its attention on the emerging community of Facebook Deleters. Drawing on in-depth interviews with members of this community, analysis considers the processes that are associated with deletion (as it happens, it is rarely a case of simply being on or off social media). We also reflect upon the motivations that inform the actions of deleters and the consequences their actions." https://www.elgaronline.com/monochap/book/9781800884106/book-part-9781800884106-13.xml

New #disconnection-paper is out: "Disconnection in nature-based tourism experiences: an actor-network theory approach" by Eugenio Conti & Ioanna Farsari https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/11745398.2022.2150665

Brief intro:

Media and Cultural Studies interested in:
- #disconnection and #audiences
- #celebrity and #influencer culture in relation to #childhood, #youth and families

Since 2020 Senior Researcher and Assoc. Professor in Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

Hope to find inspiration and engage with academics in Media and beyond. Will ocasionally use Gifs and memes, cause what else are we here for?

what are the #geopolitics of #disconnection? join us online for the next event in our ACES series on the 'Geopolitics of Technology' this Wed Nov. 23 20:00CET
https://aces.uva.nl/events/geopolitics-of-technology/geopolitics-of-technology.html

#ICA23 preconference on #disconnection , the #commodon CFP version! Deadline 20/1
https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/events/conferences/-ica-preconference-toronto-key-themes-in-digital-disconnection-studies.html

We get #fueled from #connection. We are dependent on an other. We aren't capable to be the #source to ourself. And ultimately, we need #life to come to us from the #outside.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=BurhIjG1UJo

#isolation #disconnection #antidote

Sunday #poetry:
"Fairly well versed with words
surround thyself with laughter and cheer
Though when described by friends
what you hear seems both strange and quite queer
How can it be so
That those who should know
see only your veneer"

#loneliness #MentalHealth #disconnection #writing

https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2017/04/01/some-solitary-song/