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

Description: Irl by Chris Stedman Its easy to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we arent living our real, offline lives. IRL, Chris Stedmans insightful exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness can be freshly understood in our online lives. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Its easy and reflexive to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we arent living our real, offline lives. And yet, so much of who we are and what we do now happens online. Social media is becoming less somewhere we go and more a place in which we are simply always present. All of it makes it hard to know which parts of our lives are real.IRL, Chris Stedmans personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness can be freshly understood in our new online lives. Stedman argues for a different way of seeing the supposed split between our online and offline selves: far from being unnatural, the internet is simply one more tool for understanding and expressing ourselves, and the way we use it can reveal new insights into far older human behaviors and desires. IRL invites readers to consider the ways they edit or curate themselves for digital audiences, and in the end makes a bold case for authenticity, even when it feels risky. Author Biography 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 a fellow at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. To learn more about Chris, visit chrisstedmanwriter.com. Table of Contents Introduction: AnxietweetsChapter 1: Mapping Our Digital SelvesChapter 2: Drafting DistanceChapter 3: Intimacy GrantedChapter 4: InkedChapter 5: Never Alone, But Always by OurselvesChapter 6: The Roles We PlayConclusion: The Velveteen Habit Review "This paperback edition of IRL includes a new introduction, drawing into consideration how the coronavirus pandemic has driven many more personal interactions into the online world. For readers wondering how to balance life online and off, IRL provides amiable and invaluable insight." --Shelf Awareness"Even without the pandemic, IRL would be a vital read, a thoughtful examination of our perpetually "logged on" existence, and a measured critique of the social systems that define our time online." --AV Club"Stedman remains accessible as he places himself into this technological yet jargon-free narrative; anyone looking to learn more about digital culture and its impact on society will be interested in and able to follow the concepts the author puts forth." --Library Journal"Stedmans humorous, thoughtful guide to how we can rehumanize the online world is needed more than ever." --America Magazine"A handy users manual for leading an online life full of meaning and connection." --Kirkus Review"Theres never been a better time for a book like IRL. Its a book that deals with elemental urges in plain, direct language. . . . There are dozens of vivid metaphors in the course of this book. . . . Odds are were all going to be living online for the foreseeable future. Stedmans hard-won wisdom on the subject is well worth heeding." --Open Letters Review"Jam-packed with metaphors and beautifully described vignettes. . . . Stedman reminds us throughout IRL that these digital lives, though different, arent any less real than our offline ones, so they must be managed with care." --Lambda Literary"Sensitive, intelligent." --MEL Magazine"A must-read for anyone whos condemned the internet for creating huge social disconnect, and everyone whose lived experiences prove otherwise." --BuzzFeed Books"Stedman is at ease in the existential, both digitally and IRL (in real life). . . . IRL is a fascinating contribution to this all-important conversation." --Foreword Reviews"A book that will change the online (and offline) you." --Input Mag"Thoughtful, prescient, and hyper-relevant." --Killing the Buddha"In Stedmans new book, IRL, he cements his position as a powerful cultural critic and gifted author." --Loft Literary"IRL is a profound and necessary exploration of our identities online and how we interact with each other." --Largehearted Boy"[IRL] is erudite yet highly readable, a deeply confessional memoir that mixes philosophy with pop culture and media studies." --Rewire"In Stedmans latest work, the author turns his thoughtful yet thorough gaze upon the internet as a means of constructing purpose and identity. A hybrid of memoir, criticism, and reportage . . . all held together by Stedmans moments of bracing honesty. . . . Vital --The Believer"Honest and careful, . . . [Stedman] offers compelling new ways to think about our own engagement in the digital world, constantly pushing us to consider what is real. . . . Provocative, unlikely, and fascinating." --Vocation Matters"Tackles big questions about what it means to be authentic in a world where so much of our social interaction is now taking place online. The book goes to deep places, but it doesnt burden the reader with an overly serious tone. Instead, [Stedman] brings a lightness by blending memoir, interviews, and social science, all arranged in vignettes so that reading feels like scrolling through a carefully curated Instagram feed. . . . A glowing example of what it means to think relationally about our own lives and the lives of others." --The Society Pages Long Description Its easy and reflexive to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we arent living our real, offline lives. And yet, so much of who we are and what we do now happens online. Social media is becoming less somewhere we go and more a place in which we are simply always present. All of it makes it hard to know which parts of our lives are real. IRL, Chris Stedmans personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness can be freshly understood in our new online lives. Stedman argues for a different way of seeing the supposed split between our online and offline selves: far from being unnatural, the internet is simply one more tool for understanding and expressing ourselves, and the way we use it can reveal new insights into far older human behaviors and desires. IRL invites readers to consider the ways they edit or curate themselves for digital audiences, and in the end makes a bold case for authenticity, even when it feels risky. Review Text "Even without the pandemic, IRL would be a vital read, a thoughtful examination of our perpetually "logged on" existence, and a measured critique of the social systems that define our time online." --AV Club "Stedman remains accessible as he places himself into this technological yet jargon-free narrative; anyone looking to learn more about digital culture and its impact on society will be interested in and able to follow the concepts the author puts forth." --Library Journal "Stedmans humorous, thoughtful guide to how we can rehumanize the online world is needed more than ever." --America Magazine "A handy users manual for leading an online life full of meaning and connection." --Kirkus Review "I am thankful for IRL. Chris Stedman is equal parts caring and indicting, and I hope this is a book that remains at the forefront of the discussion about our lives -- digital and otherwise -- for years to come." ---- Hanif Adburraqib, author of They Cant Kill Us Until They Kill Us and Go Ahead in the Rain "Chris Stedmans newest book is a strangely prescient and timely guide to being more real digitally as we enter an era where we will need to be. His idea of digital life as drag has entirely reoriented my sense of self-presentation there, even as this brilliant book does more than that. By turns playful and wise, he makes us legible to ourselves and each other in new ways." ---- Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel and The Queen of the Night "At first, the premise of this book -- Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives -- was of exactly zero interest to me because Im too shallow and morally bankrupt to read any book with belonging and meaning in the title. However, I was unexpectedly riveted by Chris Stedmans fascinating and surprising insights into authenticity both online and off, and I was especially moved by his vulnerability. I think so many people are going to relate to this work of memoir and cultural commentary, especially dismissive and judgmental people like me." ---- Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and Dry "IRL is a brilliant and captivating meditation on the complexities of identity in the digital age. Stedman offers a refreshingly nuanced account of how digital spaces both satisfy and complicate the innate human need for community and recognition -- particularly for a generation that can no longer find such fulfillment in religion or other traditional spaces. IRL interrogates conventional binaries -- the real versus the fake, the fleeting versus the lasting -- and asks us to imagine our online lives as a frontier rich with possibility." ---- Meghan OGieblyn, author of Interior States "Chris Stedmans IRL is full of insight and honesty, but its greatest achievement lies in furthering our vocabulary of what it means to be real. IRL provides the side of the story many think pieces ignore: that for many of us, our digital lives were where we first learned to live most fully." ---- Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased "Chris Stedmans IRL is a deft interrogation of how our increasingly digital lives have reshaped our sense of whats real, within ourselves and around us. Drawing from equally deep wells of research and reflection, Stedman probes and provokes our expectations of our changing world, and how we fit in it." ---- Sam Lansky, author of The Gilded Razor and Broken People Review Quote "Even without the pandemic, IRL would be a vital read, a thoughtful examination of our perpetually "logged on" existence, and a measured critique of the social systems that define our time online." -- AV Club "Stedman remains accessible as he places himself into this technological yet jargon-free narrative; anyone looking to learn more about digital culture and its impact on society will be interested in and able to follow the concepts the author puts forth." -- Library Journal "Stedmans humorous, thoughtful guide to how we can rehumanize the online world is needed more than ever." -- America Magazine "A handy users manual for leading an online life full of meaning and connection." -- Kirkus Review "I am thankful for IRL . Chris Stedman is equal parts caring and indicting, and I hope this is a book that remains at the forefront of the discussion about our lives -- digital and otherwise -- for years to come." ---- Hanif Adburraqib, author of They Cant Kill Us Until They Kill Us and Go Ahead in the Rain "Chris Stedmans newest book is a strangely prescient and timely guide to being more real digitally as we enter an era where we will need to be. His idea of digital life as drag has entirely reoriented my sense of self-presentation there, even as this brilliant book does more than that. By turns playful and wise, he makes us legible to ourselves and each other in new ways." ---- Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel and The Queen of the Night "At first, the premise of this book -- Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives -- was of exactly zero interest to me because Im too shallow and morally bankrupt to read any book with belonging and meaning in the title. However, I was unexpectedly riveted by Chris Stedmans fascinating and surprising insights into authenticity both online and off, and I was especially moved by his vulnerability. I think so many people are going to relate to this work of memoir and cultural commentary, especially dismissive and judgmental people like me." ---- Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and Dry " IRL is a brilliant and captivating meditation on the complexities of identity in the digital age. Stedman offers a refreshingly nuanced account of how digital spaces both satisfy and complicate the innate human need for community and recognition -- particularly for a generation that can no longer find such fulfillment in religion or other traditional spaces. IRL interrogates conventional binaries -- the real versus the fake, the fleeting versus the lasting -- and asks us to imagine our online lives as a frontier rich with possibility." ---- Meghan OGieblyn, author of Interior States "Chris Stedmans IRL is full of insight and honesty, but its greatest achievement lies in furthering our vocabulary of what it means to be real. IRL provides the side of the story many think pieces ignore: that for many of us, our digital lives were where we first learned to live most fully." ---- Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased "Chris Stedmans IRL is a deft interrogation of how our increasingly digital lives have reshaped our sense of whats real, within ourselves and around us. Drawing from equally deep wells of research and reflection, Stedman probes and provokes our expectations of our changing world, and how we fit in it." ---- Sam Lansky, author of The Gilded Razor and Broken People Details ISBN1506463517 Author Chris Stedman Pages 260 Year 2020 ISBN-10 1506463517 ISBN-13 9781506463513 Format Hardcover Short Title Irl Language English Subtitle Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2020-10-20 UK Release Date 2020-10-20 NZ Release Date 2020-10-20 US Release Date 2020-10-20 Imprint Fortress Press,U.S. Alternative 9781506463520 DEWEY 302.231 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-10-19 Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133006660;

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