Log Off
Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix
Published on 4. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-7367168-6-1 (ISBN)
Description
Social media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but "he's merely Twitter's all-too-Dantean punishment." In this impassioned, funny, and deeply thoughtful essay, Katherine Cross excavates a fallen world of social media's political promises, from Twitter epidemiology, to handwringing over TikTok, to the ersatz hopes of new platforms like Bluesky. A kind, incisive, and unsparing argument from one of the Millennial Generation's wisest essayists, LOG OFF is a poisonous love letter that asks: Is this all really the praxis that posting was supposed to be?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 92 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
164 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7367168-6-1 (9781736716861)
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Katherine Alejandra Cross's writings have appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Baffler, The Verge, and numerous other publications. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington
School of Information, where she's studying online harassment and social media (for her sins).
School of Information, where she's studying online harassment and social media (for her sins).