Irl: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives by Stedman, Chris

Irl: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

What Does ""IRL (In Real Life)"" Really Mean in Today's Digital Age?It's easy and reflexive to view...
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Irl: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives by Stedman, Chris

Irl: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

CHF 38.67

Irl: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

CHF 38.67
Author: Chris Stedman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

What Does ""IRL (In Real Life)"" Really Mean in Today's Digital Age?


It's easy and reflexive to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we aren't living our real, offline lives. Yet so much of who we are and what we do now happens online, making it hard to know which parts of our lives are real.


IRL, Chris Stedman's personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness--who we are and where we fit in the world--can be freshly understood in our increasingly online lives. Stedman offers a different way of seeing the supposed split between our online and offline selves: the internet and social media are new tools for understanding and expressing ourselves, and the not-always-graceful ways we use these tools can reveal new insights into far older human behaviors and desires.


IRL invites readers to consider how we use the internet to fulfill the essential human need to feel real--a need many of us once met in institutions, but now seek to do on our own, online--as well as the ways we edit or curate ourselves for digital audiences. The digital search for meaning and belonging presents challenges, Stedman suggests, but also myriad opportunities to become more fully human. In the end, he makes a bold case for embracing realness in all of its uncertainty, online and off, even when it feels risky.



Author: Chris Stedman
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Published: 10/20/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781506463513


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/09/2020 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2020
Foreword 10/26/2020

About the Author
Stedman, Chris: - Chris Stedman, an activist, community organizer, and writer, is the author of Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious. He has written for The Guardian, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, BuzzFeed, and VICE, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Formerly the founding executive director of the Yale Humanist Community, he also served as a humanist chaplain at Harvard University and is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. To learn more about Chris, visit chrisstedmanwriter.com.

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