Research Catalog

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Description

1. 296 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. We have entered the age of "peep culture": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity. Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, and more. Core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.--From publisher description.

Subject

1. Social interaction
2. Technology > Social aspects
3. Privacy
4. Self-disclosure > Social aspects
5. Blogs
6. Reality television programs

Contents

1. Introducing peep culture -- Becoming a peep (product) person -- Faking the real : everyday secrets and the rise of peep TV -- Breaking the seal : gossip, grooming and the (secret) allure of peep -- Watching the detectives watching the neighbors in the golden age of surveillance -- Escape from the castle : privacy in the age of peep -- Future peep : why no one came to my party and other semi-transparent conclusions.

Call number

1. JFD 10-754

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index.

Author

1. Niedzviecki, Hal, 1971-

Title

1. The peep diaries : how we're learning to love watching ourselves and our neighbors / Hal Niedzviecki.

Imprint

1. San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, c2009.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index.

Connect to:

1. Contributor biographical information
2. Publisher description

LCCN

1. 2009007522

ISBN

1. 9780872864993
2. 0872864995

Research call number

1. JFD 10-754