Aron Lee

Jacking Out (eBook, ePUB)

A Journal of a Year Spent Offline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the end of 2019, Aron Lee decided to live 2020 without access to the internet. He would interact with the world in what we have already come to think of as the "old-fashioned" way --- taking calls and texting on a flip phone, paying bills by cheque (and receiving them by snail mail), and writing actual pen-on-paper letters to friends and family, all the while continuing his doctoral work at McGill University. Along the way he discovered a good deal about the internet, about our modern wired (and wireless) world, and about himself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rock's Mills Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781772442953
• Artikelnr.: 68368973

Autorenporträt

Aron Lee is currently working as a researcher and course lecturer at McGill University. He just completed his PhD in their Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Lee's research investigates how to support the development of students' critical digital literacy practices. Previously, Lee worked as a high school teacher and plans to return to the classroom following his doctoral work. Lee is also a poet, musician, and community organizer. He grew up in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and now lives in Tio'tia: ke (Montreal).Lee spent the year 2020 offline and used the experience to explore how the internet impacts people's everyday lives and the world. He journaled throughout his time offline and mailed out several thousand letters to his friends, family, and colleagues. The year 2020 was a transformative one for most people's digital lives, but Lee had the unique standpoint of an outsider --- a spectator, peering in and taking notes. As a grad student, researching the ways students' online lives relate to social and environmental justice, Lee was able to describe his experience in ways that connected to global issues and to the changes that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic.