Untangling the Web - Aleks Krotoski

The
World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the
last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real
effects is it having on our social world?

What
does it mean to be a modern family when dinner table conversations take
place over smartphones? What happens to privacy when we readily share
our personal lives with friends and corporations? Are our Facebook
updates and Twitterings inspiring revolution or are they just a symptom
of our global narcissism? What counts as celebrity, when everyone can
have a following or be a paparazzo? And what happens to relationships
when love, sex and hate can be mediated by a computer?

Social
psychologist Aleks Krotoski has spent a decade untangling the effects
of the Web on how we work, live and play. In this groundbreaking book,
she uncovers how much humanity has - and hasn't - changed because of our
increasingly co-dependent relationship with the computer. In Untangling the Web, she tells the story of how the network became woven in our lives, and what it means to be alive in the age of the Internet.