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Book details
File Size: 645 KB
Format: epub
Print Length: 304 pages
Publisher: MCD (February 25, 2020)
Publication Date: February 25, 2020
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B07MYX4S1Z
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.
Reviews:
“[A] very excellent new book.” – JENNA WORTHAM
“[McNeil] manages a sensitive sharpness to which more tech critics should aspire.” – JASON KEHE, Wired
“An original take on a fascinating and important subject.” – COLLEEN MODOR, Booklist
“Refreshingly humane and threaded with poetic insight.” – Shelf Awareness
“[A] thoughtful debut, critically examining how online platforms affect their users . . . McNeil explores how an internet driven by profits and the commodification of sharing transformed a potentially beneficial, community-building activity into a potentially demoralizing, community-breaking habit.” – Publishers Weekly
“Sharp, broad-ranging techno-criticism that merits attention.” – Kirkus Reviews
“In Lurking, Joanne McNeil has written the first history of the social internet that fully lives and breathes with the authentic thrill of new connection and the real chill of the present moment.” – WARREN ELLIS, author of Transmetropolitan