Jacking Out - Lee, Aron

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Résumé :
At the end of 2019, Aron Lee decided to live 2020 without access to the internet. He would interact with the world in what we have already come to think of as the old-fashioned way --- taking calls and texting on a flip phone, paying bills by cheque (and receiving them by snail mail), and writing actual pen-on-paper letters to friends and family, all the while continuing his doctoral work at McGill University. Along the way he discovered a good deal about the internet, about our modern wired (and wireless) world, and about himself. This is his story. A modest experiment, beautifully chronicled. --- Darin Barney, Grierson Chair in Communication Studies, McGill University ???Lee's memoir challenges readers' beliefs about the power of connection (and disconnection), as well as the very nature of what it means to live a life 'online.' --- Roopika Risam, Director of the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, Dartmouth College Jacking Out is a queer and quirky account of the queer and difficult year that was 2020. --- Wendy Oberlander, Artist, Educator, Lesbian Mom...

Biographie:
Aron Lee is currently working as a researcher and course lecturer at McGill University. He just completed his PhD in their Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Lee's research investigates how to support the development of students' critical digital literacy practices. Previously, Lee worked as a high school teacher and plans to return to the classroom following his doctoral work. Lee is also a poet, musician, and community organizer. He grew up in Amiskwac?w?skahikan (Edmonton) and now lives in Tio'tia:ke (Montreal).Lee spent the year 2020 offline and used the experience to explore how the internet impacts people's everyday lives and the world. He journaled throughout his time offline and mailed out several thousand letters to his friends, family, and colleagues. The year 2020 was a transformative one for most people's digital lives, but Lee had the unique standpoint of an outsider --- a spectator, peering in and taking notes. As a grad student, researching the ways students' online lives relate to social and environmental justice, Lee was able to describe his experience in ways that connected to global issues and to the changes that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic.