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Lurking
Paperback Edition: 1
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 us online and what keeps us there 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, powerful corporations, but there is a more profound, intimate story that hasnt 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.
Publisher : Picador
Publication date : 2021-05-19
Pages : 304
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Computing And IT, Internet: General Works