In preparation for this book, and to better understand our screen-based, digital world, Miller only accessed information online for seven years. On the End of Privacy explores how literacy is transformed by online technology that lets us instantly publish anything that we can see or hear. Miller examines the 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi, a young college student who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after he discovered that his roommate spied on him via webcam. With access to the text messages, tweets, and chatroom posts of those directly involved in this tragedy, Miller asks: why did no one intervene to stop the spying? Searching for an answer to that question leads Miller to online porn sites, the invention of Facebook, the court-martial of Chelsea Manning, the contents of Hillary Clinton’s email server, Anthony Weiner’s sexted images, Chatroulette, and more as he maps out the changing norms governing privacy in the digital age.
Author(s): Richard E. Miller
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 301
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines: Literacy, Information Society: United States, Information Technology: Social Aspects: United States
Contents......Page 10
Preface: Goodbye to All That......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Chapter One. On Chance, Distraction, and the Prepared Mind......Page 22
Chapter Two. On the Persistence of the Digital Past......Page 38
Chapter Three. On Willful Ignorance......Page 59
Chapter Four. On the Private Pleasures of Looking......Page 76
Chapter Five. On Getting Caught in the Act......Page 93
Chapter Six. On the Mundanity of Cruelty......Page 113
Chapter Seven. On Virtual Communities and Embodied Realities......Page 129
Chapter Eight. On Viewing Parties......Page 147
Chapter Nine. On Suicide......Page 167
Chapter Ten. On Bullies, Bullying, and Fault-Finding......Page 189
Chapter Eleven. On Guilt......Page 208
Chapter Twelve. On Meaningfulness......Page 234
Coda: On Already Out-of-Date Updates......Page 254
Bibliography by Chapter......Page 258
Index......Page 296
