Praise for Richard E. Miller’s On the End of Privacy:
“This brilliant book asks profoundly disturbing questions. How might we read and write, think and live when never-disappearing textual selves circulate wildly? How might we teach and learn when screens—and their embodied
—Doug Hesse, The University of Denver
In 2010, Miller made two commitments: to write and publish only online and to write and publish only about information that was freely available online to all. He was motivated by his sense that he couldn’t continue to teach writing if he himself didn’t know how to write and publish using the most powerful means for expression ever invented. What he found online shocked, amazed, depressed, inspired, and troubled him. Privacy, as defined in the paper-based world, no longer exists in the screen-centric world. On the End of Privacy offers Miller’s reflections on what this means for our collective future.
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
You must be logged in to post a comment.