An incisive, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir about life online and about how our obsessive connectivity is making us more disconnected'from former reality show contestant, MTV VJ, restauranteur, and go-to voice for millenials....
Internet--Social aspects
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Auteur:Morozov, EvgenySommaire:In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways...
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Auteur:Boyle, MarkSommaire:Mark Boyle explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.
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Auteur:Thomas, StephenSommaire:We sit, hunched over the words that appear on our smartphone screens, altogether unaware of the story of our lives that is going on around us, even as we focus on the minutiae of our social media "friends'" daily activities. These are...
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Auteur:Lanier, JaronSommaire:Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is a timely call-to-arms from a Silicon Valley pioneer. You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier...
- Auteur:CapstoneSommaire:
What information is safe to share online? Why are screen names important? What are chat rooms and search engines? Look inside to find the answers to these questions and more. By learning a few rules, you can stay safe online.
- Auteur:Lockwood, PatriciaSommaire:
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021 “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” — New York Times Book...
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Auteur:Nagle, AngelaSommaire:Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet.
- Auteur:Swingle, Mari K.Sommaire:
Many of us would no more go out without our cell phone than we would leave the house without clothes. We live our lives on social media, and PDAs, tablets, computers and other devices are completely integrated into our global culture....
- Auteur:Arroyo, Brandon, Waugh, ThomasSommaire:
In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the...
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Auteur:Bailey, Jane, Steeves, ValerieSommaire:eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a...
- Auteur:Lembke, AnnaSommaire:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER "Brilliant… riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."-Beth Macy, author of Dopesick As heard on Fresh Air. This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important,...
- Auteur:Lewicky, DannySommaire:
Sometimes it takes a unique perspective to see how stupid life can be. With 1001 observations on the ridiculousness of the Internet, social norms, relationships and more, Danny Lewicki calls out all the stupid we take for granted.
