Escape - How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet

'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She had her first blog at twelve, a successful music website at fifteen, a Wikipedia page at seventeen and now, at thirty, over 80,000 followers on Twitter. From MSN, Tumblr and MySpace, to chat rooms, forums and blogs; Marie is part of the millennial generation that grew up while the internet was growing up with them.Where did it go all wrong? How did the internet go from a place where you went to escape real life to where real life is shaped? A place where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world of filters and ads? A place we are all now desperately trying to escape from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet. It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places. It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us - and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone. The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?

Product details

• Authors: Marie Le Conte, MARIE LE CONTE
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781788705158
• ISBN: 978-1-78870-515-8
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / General, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, COMPUTERS / History, Internet: general works, Cultural and media studies