by Gillian ‘Gus’ AndrewsKeep Calm and Log On

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KEEP CALM AND LOG ON Your Handbook For Surviving the Digital Revolution GILLIAN ‘GUS’ ANDREWS

Empowering, practical, and profound, Andrews has written the survival manual for our age – Finn Brunton, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, and author of DIGITAL CASH

A fine collection of digital age skills we all need to equip ourselves with in order to survive and thrive in a world swimming with information – Dan Gillmor, Cofounder, ASU News Co/Lab, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

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.

Taking a cue from the famous Second World War 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. She shares the secret of understanding our own opinions’ ‘family trees’ to identify misleading ‘fake news’. She provides tips for unplugging occasionally, overcoming feelings that we are ‘bad at technology’ and taking charge of our security and privacy. She 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.

GILLIAN ‘GUS’ ANDREWS has an unusual background as both a hacker and an educator. A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University and former Google Academic Research Fellow, she has been tracking warnings about digital privacy and security issues for over a decade and is the creator of ‘The Media Show’, an award-winning YouTube series that shares media and digital-literacy insights with a young adult audience. In her work for ThoughtWorks, Second Life, Simply Secure and the Open Internet Tools project, she has helped developers make systems easier for everyday people to use. She has taught media literacy and digital media skills at Marist College and was a former panelist on the digital-rights radio show ‘Off The Hook’ and an organizer of the Hackers On Planet Earth conference. In addition to academic articles in Fibreculture Journal, E-Learning and Digital Media and the Teachers College Record, she has written popular pieces for Salon.com, the Village Voice, .net magazine, ReadWriteWeb and io9 and has been anthologized in Bitch magazine’s tenth anniversary collection ‘Bitchfest’.

Agent: Jeff Shreve

Publisher: MIT Press Publication: 7 April 2020 Length: 408 pages

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