IRL : finding realness, meaning, and belonging in our digital lives

Author/Creator:

Stedman, Chris, 1987- author

Publication/Creation:

Minneapolis : Broadleaf Books, [2020]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

IRL : finding realness, meaning, and belonging in our digital lives / Chris Stedman

Variant Titles:

In real life : finding realness, meaning, and belonging in our digital lives
Finding realness, meaning, and belonging in our digital lives

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Self-help publications

Subjects:

Authenticity (Philosophy)
Social media--Psychological aspects
Social media

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Amateurs -- Anxietweets -- In the stars -- Mapping the territory -- Drafting distance -- Inked -- The roles we play -- Uncertaintweets -- The velveteen habit.

Summary:

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. Yet so much of who we are and what we do now happens online, making 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--who we are and where we fit in the world--can be freshly understood in our increasingly online lives. Stedman offers a different way of seeing the supposed split between our online and offline selves: the internet and social media are new tools for understanding and expressing ourselves, and the not-always-graceful ways we use these tools can reveal new insights into far older human behaviors and desires. IRL invites us to consider how we use the internet to fulfill the essential human need to feel real--a need many of us once met in institutions, but now seek to do on our own, online--as well as the ways we edit or curate ourselves for digital audiences. The digital search for meaning and belonging presents challenges, Stedman suggests, but also myriad opportunities to become more fully human. In the end, he makes a bold case for embracing realness in all of its uncertainty, online and off, even when it feels risky. -- from jacket.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiii, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937381226302486

ISBN:

9781506463513
1506463517

OCLC Number:

1134685602

Barcode:

010003502568