A Life Lived Remotely

A Life Lived Remotely

by Siobhan McKeown
A Life Lived Remotely

A Life Lived Remotely

by Siobhan McKeown

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Overview

What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?

Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of a transition to the digital age. It follows the author's journey through remote work, framing it within the exponential growth of the internet and the rapid spread of neoliberalism. It examines how we are being changed by the internet, how we experience that change, and at the anxieties and issues that arise. A moment's pause in a world of fast-paced communication, it provides a critical reflection on what it means to come of age along with the internet.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781910924792
Publisher: Watkins Media
Publication date: 03/13/2018
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 250
File size: 514 KB

About the Author

Siobhan McKeown is a writer and remote worker based in Whitley Bay in the North-East of England. 

Since 2010 she has worked online in the tech industry, as a freelancer, a contractor, and as an employee. Through her years working online, she has developed wide-ranging knowledge of the practices of online work, free software and web development. She has travelled extensively, in countries as diverse as Belize, the USA, Portugal, and Thailand, both for work and as a digital nomad. She studied Philosophy at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Warwick, and Non-Fiction Writing at City University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Crackles Dial Tones 11

Part 1 Entering the Electronic Cottage 19

Chapter 1 Toad Work 21

Chapter 2 The Puritan Inside Me 37

Chapter 3 Near Yet Far 77

Part 2 Inside the High-Rise 103

Chapter 4 My Skinner Box and Me 105

Chapter 5 We Are All Entrepreneurs Now 129

Part 3 Navigating the Information Superhighway 187

Chapter 6 Panoptic People 189

Chapter 7 Wearing Gyges' Ring 211

Chapter 8 Design My Life 239

Conclusion: Life's Great Beauty 275

Bibliography 284

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