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Dikizleme Günlüğü (2009)

by Hal Niedzviecki(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Nonfiction

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review 1: Far too many books about current societal trends highlight a few attention-grabbing anecdotes, make some rather superficial comments, and don't get much farther than that. This book does relate a number of anecdotes, but the balance is better, and the discussion is more thoughtful and thorough than it is in many similar books. The author develops some pretty interesting ideas, such as observing and analyzing the many different ways the Internet world is commercialized and prompts people (or companies) to make money off of themselves or others. He occasionally includes himself in the book, describing his own efforts to experiment with Internet culture (which were usually dismal failures), and is honest about both what attracts him and repels him.Though the book is more o... moref a discussion than an argument, I still didn't always agree with the author. For example, I did not find the section about gossip and shame very persuasive. Also, the author asserts more than once that that the rise in Internet culture is linked to a decline in feelings of genuine connection and community; this claim may be true, but it needs more evidence to support it.One of the things I liked the least about the book was the title, and the frequent use of the term "Peep Culture" or just "Peep." Surely there must be a better name for this phenomenon -- a name that does not conjure up images of a creep in the bushes, or a marshmallow bunny.
review 2: First the positives. I really liked the author's tone throughout the book, he made me feel like he was talking directly to me. He's also clearly passionate about the subject of this book which made it easy and exciting to read. Going into this book, I thought it was solely about Internet - namely, Facebook and other social networks and so on. But I was pleased to see that it involved all of Peep culture, everything from crime shows (is it irony I sat down with this book for the first time while I watched AMW?) to the Nanny State, etc. etc. I really did learn a lot about a subject that I already thought I knew a lot about, always a bonus. Niedzviecki is also Canadian, as am I, and I really appreciated all the Canadian content, in almost all cases I knew exactly what streets and places he was referring to. And in true Peep style, I was interested in knowing more about him, so what did I do? Look him up on Facebook, of course.I really, really enjoyed his writing and this subject, and plan on taking out another of this author's books next time I head to the library. Negatives.I found that it was written TOO much in depth, that in some cases the author kept going on with explanations to keep hammering down his point way after it was proven. This caused me to roll my eyes and skip past some paragraphs.My book, (which was a library book and I was the very first to loan it out) had two Chapter 6's and no Chapter 4. No pages were missing, this was clearly a mistake in printing which really bothered me. less

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