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Questionnaire

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
1501314785, 9781501314780
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
943 kB (965905 bytes)
Series
Object Lessons
Pages
160\169
Time added
2023-01-13 03:52:59

Description

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come from, and why have they proliferated? Evan Kindley's Questionnaire investigates the history of “the form as form,” from the Victorian confession album to the BuzzFeed quiz. By asking questions about the questions we ask ourselves, Kindley uncovers surprising connections between literature and science, psychology and business, and journalism and surveillance. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction: The Form as Form Chapter 1 Private Publicity Chapter 2 Testing, Testing Chapter 3 Your Opinion of You Chapter 4 The Art of Asking Chapter 5 Pandora’s Checklist Chapter 6 Dating and Data Chapter 7 Quiz Mania Acknowledgments Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Index

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