Mapping the discourse on digital disconnection: a computational analysis on #disconnection Instagram posts from 2018 to 2023


Geber, Sarah ; Horner, Sina ; Ellendorff, Tilia ; Nguyen, Minh Hao


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2025.2548262
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08824...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-707376
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2025
The title of a journal, publication series: Communication Research Reports
Volume: 42
Issue number: 4
Page range: 235-246
Place of publication: London [u.a.]
Publishing house: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN: 0882-4096 , 1746-4099
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Humanities > Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Geber 2025-)
Pre-existing license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Abstract: Digital disconnection—the deliberate and temporal nonuse of digital media—is gaining traction as a response to the challenges of permanent connectivity in digital society. We examined the discourse on digital disconnection on Instagram using posts tagged with #disconnection from 2018 to 2023, encompassing the significant period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing from a dataset of 38,170 posts on digital disconnection and using a data-driven method of topic modeling (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) based on the hashtags, we identified five topics in the social media discourse around digital disconnection. The topics highlight how disconnection is negotiated as a pathway to authentic experiences in connection with the world outside and with oneself.




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