Lurking
How a Person Became a User
ISBN-13: 9781250785756
Contributor(s): Joanne McNeil
Subject: Social & Cultural History
Publisher Imprint: Picador US
Publication Date: 04-03-2021
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£15.99
About the book
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.