Lurking : how a person became a user
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Published
New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020].
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
004.678 MCNEI
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004.678 MCNEI
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Published
New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-290).
Description
"A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from-for the first time-the point of view of the user"--,Provided by publisher.
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In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we communicate but who we are and who we can be. It has created a new, unprecedented cultural space that we are all a part of--even if we don't participate, that is how we participate--but by which we're continually surprised, betrayed, enriched, befuddled. We have churned through platforms and technologies and in turn been churned by them. And yet, the internet is us and always has been. In Lurking, Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary (if sometimes contradictory) concerns of people online: searching, safety, privacy, identity, community, anonymity, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought people online and what keeps us here even as the social equations of digital life--what we're made to trade, knowingly or otherwise, for the benefits of the internet--have shifted radically beneath us. It is a story we are accustomed to hearing as tales of entrepreneurs and visionaries and dynamic and powerful corporations, but there is a more profound, intimate story that hasn't yet been told. Long one of the most incisive, ferociously intelligent, and widely respected cultural critics online, McNeil here establishes a singular vision of who we are now, tells the stories of how we became us, and helps us start to figure out what we do now.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McNeil, J. (2020). Lurking: how a person became a user (First edition.). MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McNeil, Joanne. 2020. Lurking: How a Person Became a User. MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McNeil, Joanne. Lurking: How a Person Became a User MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McNeil, Joanne. Lurking: How a Person Became a User First edition., MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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