Escape

How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet

Hardcover, 288 pages

English language

Published Sept. 1, 2022 by Bonnier Books Limited.

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978-1-78870-515-8
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'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'

Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented. She had her first blog at 12, a successful music website at 15, a Wikipedia page at 17 and now, at 29, over 78,000 followers on Twitter. From MSN, Tumblr and MySpace, to chat rooms, forums and blogs; Marie is part of the millennial generation that grew up while the internet was growing up with them.

The generation that entered a new reality. The generation that saw it all. The generation who are now witnessing its collapse.

Where did it go all wrong? How did the internet go from a place where you went to escape real …

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Subjects

  • Sociology
  • History
  • Nonfiction