Lurking by Joanne Mcneil

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

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Lurking by Joanne Mcneil

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 hasn't been told.
Joanne McNeil was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation.
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ISBN 13 9781250785756
ISBN 10 1250785758
Title Lurking
Author Joanne Mcneil
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher St Martin's Press
Year published 2021-03-04
Number of pages 304
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