Media refusal is a privilege held by those with substantial social capital.

Evidence

It may be that refusal is only available as a tactic to people who already possess a great deal of social capital, people whose social standing will endure without Facebook and people whose livelihoods don’t require them to be constantly plugged in and reachable…These are people who have what [Kathleen] Noonan (2011) calls “the power to switch off.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 329

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly grounds the reader’s question about whether Odell’s solutions require privilege. This is Odell’s own evidence that private withdrawal is a class-privileged move.
  • QUESTION: This is exactly the concession the reader needs to defuse the ‘withdrawal’ misreading: Odell herself argues isolated quitting is unavailable to those without leverage.