Jacking Out by Aron Lee (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRock's Mills Press
ISBN-101772442836
ISBN-139781772442830
eBay Product ID (ePID)12061604178
Product Key Features
Number of Pages382 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameJacking Out
SubjectPolitical Process / Media & Internet, Web / Social Media
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Computers
AuthorAron Lee
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"A surprisingly candid look at one man's struggle to remain offline for a year and yet still stay connected. This is not an anti-internet story. Rather, it is a complex, deeply personal, and often funny examination of our lives both on and offline. It had me rethinking every scroll, click, and like. It's comforting to know that even by staying offline for a year no one can fully escape 'Baby Shark.' " --- Gavin Crawford, Comedian, Host of CBC Radio One's Because News "Aron Lee's Jacking Out offers a poignant look at his experiment living a life offline for a year. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest following the murder of George Floyd, Lee's memoir challenges readers' beliefs about the power of connection (and disconnection), as well as the very nature of what it means to live a life 'online.' " --- Roopika Risam, Director of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, Dartmouth College "We have reached the point where it is impossible for most people to conceive of a time before compulsory internet connectivity. Thanks to Aron Lee's candid and courageous book, it remains possible to conceive of a future without it, and to consider the forms of life that mindful disconnection might protect, restore or make possible. A modest experiment, beautifully chronicled." --- Darin Barney, Grierson Chair in Communication Studies, McGill University "No doom scrolling here. Jacking Out is a queer and quirky account of the queer and difficult year that was 2020. For Aron Lee, turning off did not mean dropping out. On the contrary, Jacking Out pulls the reader to reconsider our place(s) in the machine: challenging the insidious and traumatic pressures of colonialism, championing the dream of queer family - and reminding us not to take that data plan for granted." --- Wendy Oberlander, Artist, Educator, Queer Mom
SynopsisAt 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. This is his story. "A modest experiment, beautifully chronicled." --- Darin Barney, Grierson Chair in Communication Studies, McGill University "Lee's memoir challenges readers' beliefs about the power of connection (and disconnection), as well as the very nature of what it means to live a life 'online.' " --- Roopika Risam, Director of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, Dartmouth College "Jacking Out is a queer and quirky account of the queer and difficult year that was 2020." --- Wendy Oberlander, Artist, Educator, Lesbian Mom
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