Joanne McNeil | Books & Literature » Non-Fiction
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
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A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user. Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary concerns of people online: searching, safety, privacy, identity, community, anonymity, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought people online and what keeps us here even as the social equations of digital life have shifted radically beneath us.