Tero Karppi is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Previously Karppi has worked as a researcher in Game Research Laboratory, University of Tampere, Finland. His forthcoming dissertation discusses the role of disconnection in  network culture and it is scheduled to be complete in December 2013. The first article of this project is titled “Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook” and it was published in the issue 20 of Transformations Journal.