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Keep Calm and Log On: Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution (Mit Press)

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How to survive the digital revolution without getting trampled: your guide to online mindfulness, digital self-empowerment, cybersecurity, creepy ads, trustworthy information, and more.Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait—wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindfulness and overcome online helplessness—the feeling that tech is out of your control—with tips for handling cybersecurity, creepy ads, untrustworthy information, and much more.Taking a cue from the famous World War II morale-boosting slogan (“Keep Calm and Carry On”), Gus Andrews shows us how to adapt the techniques our ancestors used to survive hard times, so we can live our best lives online. She explains why media and technology stress us out, and offers empowering tools for coping. Mindfulness practices can help us stay calm and conserve our attention purposefully. Andrews shares the secret of understanding our own opinions'' “family trees” in order to identify misleading “fake news.” She provides tools for unplugging occasionally, overcoming feelings that we are “bad at technology,” and taking charge of our security and privacy. Andrews explains how social media algorithms keep us from information we need and why “creepy ads” seem to follow us online. Most importantly, she urges us to work to rebuild the trust in our communities that the internet has broken. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Illustrated edition (April 28, 2020)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262538768


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 63


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.31 x 0.87 x 9.31 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #3,273,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,040 in Computer Hacking #2,099 in Privacy & Online Safety #6,112 in Internet & Telecommunications


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    • Incredibly Helpful
Life comes at you fast and I'm raising two kids in a different world than the one I grew up in. Monsters and Ghosts are real and they live on the internet in the form of terrifying privacy and security vulnerabilities. Gus is a security trainer and educator. Her experience and well-researched perspective gave me a better understanding of the digital world we live in. I'm simultaneously more and less cautious now that I've read this book - I've put some new practices in place and let go of a number of fears. I'd suggest this book for anyone managing a remote team, or parents wrangling their kids' digital lives. Creepy spy software isn't the answer, understanding the players and the ecosystem is. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020 by E. Firment
    • Great book even for those in tech
The audience for this book seems to be primarily people who don't use tech a lot or who find it intimidating. I work as a technical writer in the software development and I found this book really helpful. Even though I document software APIs comfortably, I still find the process of deciding what security settings to use in my phone and browser overwhelming. I appreciate the social context this book provides, and the "we can do it" encouraging tone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2021 by Eva
    • An essential guide for anyone stressed, bewildered, or just concerned about the post-digital age
I am very comfortable online and I didn't think this book had anything to teach me, but this book revealed hidden vulnerabilities about the way I conduct myself in digital spaces and helped me make meaning out of what I had assumed to be meaningless -- or at least random. Using an extraordinarily clever framing device, Andrews helps put the reader into the driver's seat of their own digital experience, giving us the tools and the confidence to control our online lives and protect ourselves from threats. A must-read for, well, pretty much everybody. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2020 by Laura Shapiro

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