Lurking

How a Person Became a User

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Joanne McNeil: Lurking (2020, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

304 pages

English language

Published Oct. 4, 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-71632-5
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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a side of the internet not often discussed

4 stars

I listened to this book as an audiobook narrated by the author. I first learned about it in 2020 and watched "Why Trust a Corporation to do a Library's Job". I think this made me have a different impression of what to expect from the book. Some of it was information I was familiar with and some of it was new. It's also quite personal as others have noted. I was really surprised to learn about a side of Ello that didn't make the same impression on me when I was a teenager who didn't know about the drama that was happening around it. I think it'd be a book that would get along well with some friends, but I'm not sure what the person I'd recommend it to would be exactly. Perhaps something along the lines of someone who'd be interested in books like Blockchain Chicken Farm. It's the …

Subjects

  • Internet, social aspects