Lurking : how a person became a user

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Lurking : how a person became a user

Title remainder

how a person became a user

Statement of responsibility

Joanne McNeil

Creator

• trueMcNeil, Joanne

Author

• trueMcNeil, Joanne

Subject

• Creative nonfiction
• Informational works
• trueInternet
• Internet -- Social aspects
• Internet -- Social aspects
• trueInternet users
• Internet users -- Psychology
• McNeil, Joanne
• trueOnline social networks
• Personal narratives
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• trueSocial media
• trueTechnology
• Technology -- Social aspects
• trueTechnology and civilization
• trueVirtual community
• COMPUTERS / Social Aspects

Genre

• Informational works
• truePersonal narratives
• Creative nonfiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from-for the first time-the point of view of the user"--
• 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

Writing style

• trueEngaging
• trueIncisive

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

• 004.67/8
• 155.9

Index

no index present

LC call number

HM851

LC item number

.M3965 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography