By Alexandra Petri
ISBN-10: 0698155521
ISBN-13: 9780698155527
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri turns her satirical eye on her personal existence during this hilarious new memoir...
Most twentysomethings spend loads of time fending off awkwardness.
Not Alexandra Petri.
Afraid of rejection? Alexandra Petri has auditioned for America’s subsequent best Model. frightened of having a look like an fool? Alexandra Petri misplaced Jeopardy! via answering “Who is that dude?” on nationwide television. frightened of undesirable jokes? Alexandra Petri gained a world pun championship.
Petri has been a debutante, reenacted the Civil conflict, and fended off suitors at a Star Wars conference whereas donning a Jabba the Hutt go well with. One time, she permit a few cult participants she met in the street baptize her, simply to be well mannered. She’s a gourmand of the type of awkwardness that the majority humans spend entire lifetimes attempting to steer clear of. If John Hodgman and Amy Sedaris had a baby…they could by no means enable Petri babysit it.
But Petri is right here to inform you: every thing you worry isn't so undesirable. belief her. She’s attempted it. And during her misadventures, she’s discovered that there are worse issues in the market than awkwardness—and that fascinating issues begin to ensue if you happen to cease being concerned what humans imagine.
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In personal publics, news reporting and instances of professional communication can share the same space with personal musings, phatic communication (Miller, 2008), and social grooming. This convergence of the public and the personal is already pointing to the second main consequence of the rise of personal publics: they contribute to the shift in our understanding of mediated privacy and publicness (exemplary for the debate on this deep and complex change, see the debate between Ford, 2011, and Jurgenson & Rey, 2012).
Like other “new media,” Twitter is both underdetermined and recombinant (Lievrouw, 2002), making it subject to the interpretative flexibility of the particular social groups involved in developing and appropriating the technology (van Dijck, 2011). Thus, there are many different practices of Twitter use: a teenager in suburban USA will tweet differently from a German professional football team, from a British comedian, and from a political party in Spain. Still, they all participate in a shared media technology with particular functionalities and communicative architecture, so it is worthwhile to examine these characteristics and (some of) their consequences.
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