Virginia Heffernan
Autore di Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1969-08-08
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Virginia
Harvard University - Attività lavorative
- journalist
critic
columnist - Organizzazioni
- The New York Times
The New York Times Magazine
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- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 129
- Popolarità
- #156,299
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 10
Unfortunately, she doesn't deliver.
I read the first few chapters, and then got frustrated and skimmed a few other sections. All in all, I probably read about 50% of the book. It's possible that I missed some of the more cogent parts of her argument.
This feels much less like it is about the internet as a whole, than it is about Hefferman's experience of the internet. I don't see evidence of much research. That's okay, for what it is worth, but at no point does Hefferman make that clear.
I'm not sure who Hefferman's audience is. It's like she's writing this for people who have never actually used the internet, yet still somehow have nostalgia for internet culture. For instance, she spends several pages defining what a hashtag is. That gives all of her writing a weird abstract quality.
If there is an argument to this book, I couldn't follow it. The introduction talked about the dichotomy of magic and loss, and it seemed that that was going to be what the book was about, but I didn't find discussions of magic or loss in anything else I read.… (altro)