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Irl - Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives (Hardcover)
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Irl - Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
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It's easy and reflexive 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. And yet, so much of who we are and what we do now
happens online. Social media is becoming less somewhere we go and
more a place in which we are simply always present. All of it makes
it hard to know which parts of our lives are real. IRL, Chris
Stedman's personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the
digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness can
be freshly understood in our new online lives. Stedman argues for a
different way of seeing the supposed split between our online and
offline selves: far from being unnatural, the internet is simply
one more tool for understanding and expressing ourselves, and the
way we use it can reveal new insights into far older human
behaviors and desires. IRL invites readers to consider the ways
they edit or curate themselves for digital audiences, and in the
end makes a bold case for authenticity, even when it feels risky.
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