Log off : why posting and politics (almost) never mix /

Social media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but "he's merely Twitter's all-too-Dantean punishment." In this impassioned, funny and deeply thoughtful essay,...

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Main Author:	Cross, Katherine (Author)
Other Authors:	Fitzpatrick, Cat (Editor), Plett, Casey (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Brooklyn, New York : LittlePuss Press LLC, [2024].
Subjects:	Internet and activism. Politics in social media. Social media and society. Digital media > Social aspects. Social media > Humor. Wit and humor in social media.

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Summary:	Social media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but "he's merely Twitter's all-too-Dantean punishment." In this impassioned, funny and deeply thoughtful essay, Katherine Cross excavates a fallen world of social media's political promises, from Twitter epidemiology, to handwringing over TikTok, to the ersatz hopes of new platforms like Bluesky. A kind, incisive and unsparing argument from one of the Millennial Generation's wisest essayists, LOG OFF is a poisonous love letter that asks is this all really the praxis that posting was supposed to be?
Physical Description:	235 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	1736716867 9781736716861