Debates for the Digital Age [2 volumes]: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Our Online World

Description

By evaluating the Internet's impact on key cultural issues of the day, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the seismic technological and cultural shifts it has created in contemporary society.• Includes essays on overarching themes and issues that are essential to understanding Internet culture, including privacy, celebrity, superficiality, and the personal toll online living can have on users• Addresses current Internet material as well as classic memes, sites, and products• Engages readers through a deliberately provocative point of view• Provides a comprehensive examination of the realities surrounding Internet culture, which can be extremely positive or very ugly• Differentiates itself from other examinations of Internet culture through emphasis on continuing themes rather than time-specific content• Takes a distinctly international approach to the topic of today's digital, interconnected world