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What is the internet, even?

Understanding what the internet is -- its potential, its workings, and its motivations -- has become crucial as we increasingly transform into a digital society. But where is the best place to learn about the internet? Not the yawning chasm itself, I would argue. If you feel befuddled by internet addiction or, on the other hand, internet rejection, you might take a look at some of these books to get a sense of what it's all about.

Lawrence Public Library

40 items

  • BookNew York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] — 302.231 MCCULLOU
  • Subprime Attention Crisis

    Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet

    Hwang, Tim,
    BookNew York : FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020] — 659.144 HWANG T
  • Online Afterlives

    Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture

    Sisto, Davide, 1978-
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] — 306.9 SISTO D
  • BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 303.4833 HEFFERNA
  • Culture Warlords

    My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

    Lavin, Talia
    BookNew York : Hachette Books, 2020. — 320.569 LAVIN T
  • The Secret Life

    Three True Stories of the Digital Age

    O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968-
    UnknownNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 302.3 O'HAGAN
  • Because Internet

    Understanding the New Rules of Language

    McCulloch, Gretchen,
    BookNew York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2019. — 302.231 MCCULLOC
  • The Internet of Us

    Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

    Lynch, Michael P. (Michael Patrick), 1966-
    BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016] — 001 LYNCH M
  • The Net Delusion

    the Dark Side of Internet Freedom

    Morozov, Evgeny
    BookNew York, NY : PublicAffairs, c2011. — 303.4833 MOROZOV
  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    the Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    UnknownNew York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, c2011. — 071.3 WILL THE
  • The Shallows

    What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    Carr, Nicholas G., 1959-
    BookNew York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. — 612.8028 CARR N
  • Speech Police

    the Global Struggle to Govern the Internet

    Kaye, David (David A.)
    UnknownNew York : Columbia Global Reports, [2019] — 384.334 KAYE D
  • We Are the Nerds

    the Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

    Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine,
    BookNew York : Hachette Books, [2018] — 302.32 LAGORIO-
  • The Tangled Web We Weave

    Inside the Shadow System That Shapes the Internet

    Ball, James,
    BookBrooklyn : Melville House Publishing, 2020. — 302.231 BALL J
  • Surveillance Valley

    the Secret Military History of the Internet

    Levine, Yasha,
    BookNew York : PublicAffairs, [2018] — 355.3432 LEVINE Y