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Bezig met laden... IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital Worlddoor Chris Stedman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. IRL, the internet acronym for “in real life,” explores how we discover our identity and who we truly are in the digital age. While some works in this topic are gloomy ( “ too much internet is hurting us”), this book offer a refreshing way of examine our digital footprint. While I disagree with the author on some political points, I found the book book well-researched and somewhat comical. Steadman’s thesis— it’s how we use the internet— is very true. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book as part of an early review program.
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. When I originally saw the posting for the book, I completely expected it to be a poorly-written collection of evidence that the internet is bad and that we need to abandon technology forever.
Instead, Stedman shares a refreshingly realistic and open insight into our digital lives. His writing style is clear, interesting, and easy-to-follow. His thoughts are well-researched and logically consistent. The book is, overall, as entertaining as it is informative.
I don't believe it possible to completely analyze all of the causes and effects of our online lives in one work, but this book comes closer than any other book I've read on the topic. I would encourage it to anyone looking to widen their perspective.Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This book touches on how we live our lives online more and more, if our online selves are "real," and how the Internet makes things better and worse for society. The author speaks about his own life, and how he sees how the Internet has impacted his life as well. I thought this book could use less of the author's personal life, and more facts about how Twitter and Instagram impacts society. Overall, a decent read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"A must-read." --Buzzfeed It's reflexive and common to view our online presence as fake; to see the internet as a space we enter when we aren't living our real, offline lives. But ever since a pandemic pushed more and more of our work, relationships, and even leisure into digital space, the internet doesn't feel so fake anymore. Every day, the lines between digital and "real" space blur even further. Activist and writer Chris Stedman explores authenticity in the digital age, shining a light into and beyond age-old notions of realness--who we are and where we fit in the world--to bring fresh understanding for our increasingly online lives. Stedman offers a new way of seeing the supposed split between our online and offline selves, one in which online spaces and social media become new tools for understanding and expressing ourselves--and where the not-always-graceful ways we use these tools can reveal new insights for incorporating far older human truths into modern life. How might the online spaces we use fulfill our essential human need to feel real? Must we view the internet and the real world as binary, where there is no room for overlap? Playful and wise, Stedman suggests that the digital search for meaning and belonging presents challenges but also opportunities to become more fully human. He boldly invites us to embrace realness in all its uncertainty, online and off, no matter how risky it might feel. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenChris Stedman's boek IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Actuele discussiesGeen
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I would give this book 3.5 stars, if only because of the simple fact that many problems are presented, and very few solutions are proposed. I read this to see how to ‘find’ my ‘real self in a digital world,’ not be bombarded with a litany of digital problems with no solutions in sight. The subtitle is misleading. ( )