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Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to you
by Aleks Krotoski
It's not difficult to find a book about the effects of the digital age on our lives, and how the web of our online and offline lives is being woven tighter and tighter. But it is tricky to find one that presents a balance of the positives along with the negatives, and that covers those impacts across all aspects of 'life'.
Aleks doesn't go into unnecessary depth about any of the areas she covers, but gives no nonsense relatable insights over a wide range of the points in life than online and offline are increasingly overlapping: finding love, harbouring hatred, politics, privacy, home-life, education and even medicine.
It reads like a collection of introductory paragraphs from an essay (which isn't surprising as Aleks took much of the content from her PHD)which makes the information digestable and logical - but if you're not sold on the subject matter you won't feel compelled to read on. There are a couple of spelling and grammar blunders; but we won't hold that against this book.
Highlights for me: Krotski's exploration of how the internet and online communities are revolutionising sex&pornography; and how journalism has evolved (or hasn't in some cases) to accomodate the 'everyone is a reporter' scenario that social media encourages.
Despite the subtitle of the book, "What the internet is doing to you", this book makes it clear that what we ought to be considering instead is 'what does what we're doing online say about us' and 'what does it mean'
Aleks doesn't go into unnecessary depth about any of the areas she covers, but gives no nonsense relatable insights over a wide range of the points in life than online and offline are increasingly overlapping: finding love, harbouring hatred, politics, privacy, home-life, education and even medicine.
It reads like a collection of introductory paragraphs from an essay (which isn't surprising as Aleks took much of the content from her PHD)which makes the information digestable and logical - but if you're not sold on the subject matter you won't feel compelled to read on. There are a couple of spelling and grammar blunders; but we won't hold that against this book.
Highlights for me: Krotski's exploration of how the internet and online communities are revolutionising sex&pornography; and how journalism has evolved (or hasn't in some cases) to accomodate the 'everyone is a reporter' scenario that social media encourages.
Despite the subtitle of the book, "What the internet is doing to you", this book makes it clear that what we ought to be considering instead is 'what does what we're doing online say about us' and 'what does it mean'