Coming out Of Nowhere

ISBN-13: 9781467984263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 194 str.

Natasha Renna Miller

Opis

"Coming Out of Nowhere," The social networking memoir that chronicles the cyber culture of social networking and the use of virtual identity for self-expression and interaction over the Internet via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This book contains unedited conversations and deeply personal life experiences from members against, associated with and inside of the LBGTQ community. It contains the virtual replies, post, messages and comments received as a result of some discussing their sexual orientation and some just discussing their feelings towards homosexuality on the Internet. The conversations are raw, honest, and often painful in their uninhibited rhetoric, undereducated and shockingly illiterate online activity, which varies, from the supportive, the indifferent, homophobic and to the violent. In displaying this content simply as it is, Miller hopes readers will pause to reflect on the consequences of their behavior in both the real and virtual worlds. Social networking sites are amazing tools that allow users to communicate their thoughts and ideas to mass audiences, giving users the option to reveal more of the person that they are or giving users the option and platform to pretend to be someone else. Some subscribers use the web only as means of entertainment, while other subscribers use the web as a means of making profound statements of love and acceptance or to construct a virtual platform for promoting hate and intolerance. Most subscribers are blind to the fact that cyber bullying is taking lives and taking place, just one page or one click over. "Coming Out of Nowhere" allows readers to mentally and emotionally "log-in" to their favorite websites (Facebook, Twitter and Youtube) and view the opinions of others on religion, hate, suicide, love, tragedy, entertainment, sickness, politics, Cyber bullying, freedom of choice, homophobia and all things surrounding homosexuality by simply turning a page.