The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us - Hardcover

Young, Nora

 
9780771070648: The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0771070640 ISBN 13: 9780771070648
Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2012

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The host of CBC Radio's Spark explores the very real impact of the virtual information we generate about ourselves -- on our own lives, our communities, and our government.
 
We generate enormous amounts of online data about our habits: where we go, what we do, and how we feel. Some of that is stuff we choose to report; some of it is the offhand data trails we leave behind. The Virtual Self looks at the debates and challenges around virtual data-sharing -- from Facebook status updates to Google Navigator -- and its potential for building more responsive communities and governments. Nora argues that if we wrestle now with issues like privacy and data control, we can harness the power of that data.
 
The host of CBC Radio's Spark, Nora Young has fascinating information at her disposal, unique insights into the intersection of the virtual and real worlds, and a wonderful voice for making all of these clear to a general audience. Accessible and entertaining, The Virtual Self takes that personal, psychological reality of everything from email to status updates and teases out the increasingly bigger impacts on the real world around us of the virtual information we all generate.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

NORA YOUNG is a writer-broadcaster, producer, and documentary-maker. The was the founding host and producer of Definitely Not the Opera and currently hosts CBC's national radio show Spark. She is fascinated with the intersection of technology and culture: how changing technology affects the way we see ourselves, and each other.

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Verlag
McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0771070640
ISBN 13 
9780771070648
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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