The peep diaries
Subtitle: how we're learning to love watching ourselves and our neighbors
By: Hal Niedzviecki.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780872864993
Subjects: Sensationalism in journalism; Gossip
Description: We have entered the age of "peep culture": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity. Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, and more. Core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing peep culture; title: Becoming a peep (product) person; title: Faking the real : everyday secrets and the rise of peep TV; title: Breaking the seal : gossip, grooming and the (secret) allure of peep; title: Watching the detectives watching the neighbors in the golden age of surveillance; title: Escape from the castle : privacy in the age of peep; title: Future peep : why no one came to my party and other semi-transparent; title: Conclusions.