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The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors
We have entered the age of "peep culture": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security and even humanity. Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, Dr. Phil , Borat , cell phone photos of your drunk friend making out with her ex-boyfriend, and more. In the age of peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing. With hilarious, exasperated acuity, social critic Hal Niedzviecki dives into peep, starting his own video blog, joining every social network that will have him, monitoring the movements of his toddler, selling his secrets on Craigslist, hiring a private detective to investigate him, spying on his neighbors, trying out for reality TV shows and stripping for the pleasure of a web audience he isn’t even sure exists. Part travelogue, part diary, part meditation and social history, The Peep Diaries explores a rapidly emerging digital phenomenon that is radically changing not just the entertainment landscape, but also the firmaments of our culture and society. The Peep Diaries introduces the arrival of the age of peep culture and explores its implications for entertainment, society, sex, politics and everyday life. Mixing first-rate reporting with sociological observations culled from the latest research, this book captures the shift from pop to peep and the way technology is turning gossip into documentary and Peeping Toms into entertainment journalists. Packed with stranger-than-fiction true-life characters and scenarios, The Peep Diaries reflects the aspirations and confusions of the growing number of people willing to trade the details of their private lives for catharsis, attention and notoriety. Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and has published numerous works of social commentary and fiction, including Hello I’m How Individuality Became the New Conformity and Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened , which is also published by City Lights Publishers.
296 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Hal Niedzviecki
16 books50 followersHal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges
preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. Hal works in both the fiction and nonfiction genres. He is the author
of books including, in fiction, the novel Ditch, and his latest novel The Program. In nonfiction, his most recent work is The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (www.peepdiaries.com). He is the
current fiction editor and the founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and
the independent arts ( www.brokenpencil.com). He edited the magazine from 1995 to
2002. Hal’s writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals and journals across North
America including the Utne Reader, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life,
Walrus, Geist, and This Magazine. He was the recipient of the Alexander Ross Award for
Best New Magazine Writer at the 1999 National Magazine Awards and has presented his
work at events across North America including the International Festival of Authors in
Toronto. Once dubbed the “guru of independent/alternative action” by the Toronto Star,
Niedzviecki is committed to exploring the human condition through provocative fiction
and non-fiction that charts the media saturated terrain of ever shifting multiple identities
at the heart of our fragmenting age. For excerpts, reviews, samples of past articles and
more, visit Hal’s website: www.smellit.ca
preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. Hal works in both the fiction and nonfiction genres. He is the author
of books including, in fiction, the novel Ditch, and his latest novel The Program. In nonfiction, his most recent work is The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (www.peepdiaries.com). He is the
current fiction editor and the founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and
the independent arts ( www.brokenpencil.com). He edited the magazine from 1995 to
2002. Hal’s writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals and journals across North
America including the Utne Reader, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life,
Walrus, Geist, and This Magazine. He was the recipient of the Alexander Ross Award for
Best New Magazine Writer at the 1999 National Magazine Awards and has presented his
work at events across North America including the International Festival of Authors in
Toronto. Once dubbed the “guru of independent/alternative action” by the Toronto Star,
Niedzviecki is committed to exploring the human condition through provocative fiction
and non-fiction that charts the media saturated terrain of ever shifting multiple identities
at the heart of our fragmenting age. For excerpts, reviews, samples of past articles and
more, visit Hal’s website: www.smellit.ca
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August 21, 2020
Sosyal medyanın hayatımızdaki yerini anlamlandırmak için yaptığım okumaların içinde belki de beni en çok şaşırtan bu kitap oldu. Daha önce hiç bağlantı kurmadığım meselelerin, olayların aslında bizi nasıl adım adım bugünkü halimize taşıdığını görmek biraz rahatsız edici bir farkındalık. Facebook instagram şıp diye belirmiş gibi davranmak daha sakinleştiriydi.
Yazarın dili, verdiği örnekler vs akıcı. Kişisel sebeplerden dolayı okumam biraz uzun sürdü ama normalde daha çabuk biterdi diye düşünüyorum. Bahsettiği kanalların, blogların ismini direkt vermesi de hoşuma gitti. Bu sayede merak ettiklerimi araştırıp daha çok okuyabildim.
Son kısımlardan birinde siyasetle bağdaştırdığı olayları anlattı, orası en çok keyif aldığım kısımdı, ilgi alanlarımla birleşince tabii.
1 puan kırmamın sebebi ise yazarın yer yer göz devirmeme, "ok boomer" dememe sebep olan çıkarımlarıydı. Pedofili, ensest, şiddetin göz önüne düşmeden önce evlerde yüz yıllardır var olduğunu hepimiz biliyoruz. Sırf her gün haberini görmüyorduk diye olmadığına, şimdi haberini görüyoruz diye aniden belirdiğine inanmak da artık...
Yazarın dili, verdiği örnekler vs akıcı. Kişisel sebeplerden dolayı okumam biraz uzun sürdü ama normalde daha çabuk biterdi diye düşünüyorum. Bahsettiği kanalların, blogların ismini direkt vermesi de hoşuma gitti. Bu sayede merak ettiklerimi araştırıp daha çok okuyabildim.
Son kısımlardan birinde siyasetle bağdaştırdığı olayları anlattı, orası en çok keyif aldığım kısımdı, ilgi alanlarımla birleşince tabii.
1 puan kırmamın sebebi ise yazarın yer yer göz devirmeme, "ok boomer" dememe sebep olan çıkarımlarıydı. Pedofili, ensest, şiddetin göz önüne düşmeden önce evlerde yüz yıllardır var olduğunu hepimiz biliyoruz. Sırf her gün haberini görmüyorduk diye olmadığına, şimdi haberini görüyoruz diye aniden belirdiğine inanmak da artık...
September 3, 2020
3 1/2 stars
August 1, 2016
"'Blog posts, images, videos, tweets, dating profiles and friend updates', [Niedzviecki:] says, are creating a culture without privacy, a culture of 'wanting to know everything about everyone and, in turn, wanting to make sure that everyone knows everything about us. [He:] argues that the handful of people who walk about with digital cameras on their heads, so that they can put every part of every day online, and the people who beg to be contestants on reality TV shows, are simply extremes of the Peep that engulfs us all."
-Stephen Burt, London Review of Books
"Niedzviecki avoids the doomsaying that plagues so much commentary about sociotechnological change. While he discusses Peep’s troubling implications for privacy, surveillance, and criminal justice, he also recognizes that interconnectivity can be empowering, educational, and entertaining. Peep’s potential to add value to our lives deserves such reflective appreciation."
—Bill Flanigen, reason.com
"This book describes 'peep culture' as a rapidly emerging cultural phenomenon made possible by technological change. It is incarnated in so-called reality television, celebrity gossip sites, blogs, YouTube videos, social networking sites, and other media that are moving what was once private, from the mundane to the embarrassing, into the public sphere. In order to investigate 'peep culture,' the author immersed himself in virtually every aspect of it that he could, from trying out for reality television to joining every social network he could. He reports on these experiences and ruminates on the implications of 'peep culture' for entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life."
—Book News Inc
"'You need to know. You need to be known.' That is the compulsion fueling what cultural critic Hal Niedzviecki calls 'peep culture, the bastard love child of gossip'—our mass addiction to twittering, tweeting, snooping, spying, blogging, gawking at reality TV and YouTube, spilling our secrets on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Ping…the list goes on. 'Call it surveillance with benefits,' he writes of our consuming need for human connection in The Peep Diaries (City Lights), a virtual descent into the loneliest of worlds."
—Cathleen Medwick, O Magazine
"Hal Niedzviecki's new book coins the term 'peep culture' and harnesses a ton of research – as well as his impressive analytical skills – in a way that’s sure to make the term stick. Peep culture refers to the phenomenon that currently finds us all yearning to watch and be watched. It’s spawned everything from reality TV to Facebook to complex spy technologies used for entertainment and other, not so benign purposes. . . . Writing with astonishing clarity – and even beauty – Niedzviecki piles on the ironies. In peep culture, TV shows like 'Cops,' originally intended to curb crime, wind up promoting it. . . . Essential reading."
—NOW Magazine
"Ubiquitous video technology and the Internet have ushered in a 'peep culture' that makes us all either—or simultaneously—exhibitionists or voyeurs, according to this eye-opening study. In good participant-observer fashion, Niedzviecki (Hello, I'm Special) dives into our mania for observing and revealing pseudo-secret personal information: he starts a blog, applies to reality television shows, does video surveillance around his house and slips a GPS tracking device into his wife’s car. He’s content to merely interview, rather than join, the middle-aged couples who post their amateur porn online. He argues instead that peep culture reprises an ancient impulse to bond through the sharing of intimacies, but worries that our digital version of village gossip and primate grooming is a weak and fraudulent foundation for community (out of his 700-odd Facebook friends and blog readers, only one showed up for his offline party). Niedzviecki’s smart mixture of reportage and reflection avoids alarmism and hype while capturing the strange power of our urge to see and be seen."
—Publishers Weekly
"Despite its often-lighthearted approach, 'The Peep Diaries' sheds light on the darker corners of the rapid changes in how we communicate, the repercussions of such a shift in paradigm and the root causes for its embrace."
-Kyle Armstrong, Christian Week
-Stephen Burt, London Review of Books
"Niedzviecki avoids the doomsaying that plagues so much commentary about sociotechnological change. While he discusses Peep’s troubling implications for privacy, surveillance, and criminal justice, he also recognizes that interconnectivity can be empowering, educational, and entertaining. Peep’s potential to add value to our lives deserves such reflective appreciation."
—Bill Flanigen, reason.com
"This book describes 'peep culture' as a rapidly emerging cultural phenomenon made possible by technological change. It is incarnated in so-called reality television, celebrity gossip sites, blogs, YouTube videos, social networking sites, and other media that are moving what was once private, from the mundane to the embarrassing, into the public sphere. In order to investigate 'peep culture,' the author immersed himself in virtually every aspect of it that he could, from trying out for reality television to joining every social network he could. He reports on these experiences and ruminates on the implications of 'peep culture' for entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life."
—Book News Inc
"'You need to know. You need to be known.' That is the compulsion fueling what cultural critic Hal Niedzviecki calls 'peep culture, the bastard love child of gossip'—our mass addiction to twittering, tweeting, snooping, spying, blogging, gawking at reality TV and YouTube, spilling our secrets on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Ping…the list goes on. 'Call it surveillance with benefits,' he writes of our consuming need for human connection in The Peep Diaries (City Lights), a virtual descent into the loneliest of worlds."
—Cathleen Medwick, O Magazine
"Hal Niedzviecki's new book coins the term 'peep culture' and harnesses a ton of research – as well as his impressive analytical skills – in a way that’s sure to make the term stick. Peep culture refers to the phenomenon that currently finds us all yearning to watch and be watched. It’s spawned everything from reality TV to Facebook to complex spy technologies used for entertainment and other, not so benign purposes. . . . Writing with astonishing clarity – and even beauty – Niedzviecki piles on the ironies. In peep culture, TV shows like 'Cops,' originally intended to curb crime, wind up promoting it. . . . Essential reading."
—NOW Magazine
"Ubiquitous video technology and the Internet have ushered in a 'peep culture' that makes us all either—or simultaneously—exhibitionists or voyeurs, according to this eye-opening study. In good participant-observer fashion, Niedzviecki (Hello, I'm Special) dives into our mania for observing and revealing pseudo-secret personal information: he starts a blog, applies to reality television shows, does video surveillance around his house and slips a GPS tracking device into his wife’s car. He’s content to merely interview, rather than join, the middle-aged couples who post their amateur porn online. He argues instead that peep culture reprises an ancient impulse to bond through the sharing of intimacies, but worries that our digital version of village gossip and primate grooming is a weak and fraudulent foundation for community (out of his 700-odd Facebook friends and blog readers, only one showed up for his offline party). Niedzviecki’s smart mixture of reportage and reflection avoids alarmism and hype while capturing the strange power of our urge to see and be seen."
—Publishers Weekly
"Despite its often-lighthearted approach, 'The Peep Diaries' sheds light on the darker corners of the rapid changes in how we communicate, the repercussions of such a shift in paradigm and the root causes for its embrace."
-Kyle Armstrong, Christian Week
January 9, 2017
This is a relatively interesting and amusing book about how modern technology and modern culture have created a brave new world that we don't really understand how to navigate (and which could have all sorts of unintended consequences for us. However, the book suffers from a number of problems which make it not among the best books to examine this particular moment in human history (and there are a lot of these books).
First, Niedzviecki tries to give all the different things he covers one name: Peep. Obviously that didn't stick. And the problem is that he comes off as one of those undergrads who thinks they know everything, diagnosing all our problems under his rubric. Had he been successful, and other people had taken up his concept, maybe this wouldn't have bugged me so much. But given that not a single other soul calls this stuff "Peep," it's hard to get behind. (Think of "fark," which was a far more celebrated naming of an internet phenomenon, at least at the time, but which is also now forgotten.)
Second, and far more importantly, this book was published in 2008. And like all books dealing with new technology in our day and age, things have changed. A lot. The best example - of numerous examples throughout the book - is Twitter, where even its creators don't seem to fully understand where Twitter was headed. The author treats it as basically a tool for oversharing. But the author cites numerous websites that have dwindled in popularity or disappeared, and services with the same fates. So it makes it much harder to take his fears seriously, as much as I may sympathize.
And there's a lot more opinion here than fact. Studies are cited, experts interviewed, but so much of the book is the author's subjective fears about the future.
And these fears undercut the conclusion in which the author takes a far more optimistic tone, one which he barely adopts throughout the previous chapters.
That being said, there were still some decent insights and I wasn't bored.
First, Niedzviecki tries to give all the different things he covers one name: Peep. Obviously that didn't stick. And the problem is that he comes off as one of those undergrads who thinks they know everything, diagnosing all our problems under his rubric. Had he been successful, and other people had taken up his concept, maybe this wouldn't have bugged me so much. But given that not a single other soul calls this stuff "Peep," it's hard to get behind. (Think of "fark," which was a far more celebrated naming of an internet phenomenon, at least at the time, but which is also now forgotten.)
Second, and far more importantly, this book was published in 2008. And like all books dealing with new technology in our day and age, things have changed. A lot. The best example - of numerous examples throughout the book - is Twitter, where even its creators don't seem to fully understand where Twitter was headed. The author treats it as basically a tool for oversharing. But the author cites numerous websites that have dwindled in popularity or disappeared, and services with the same fates. So it makes it much harder to take his fears seriously, as much as I may sympathize.
And there's a lot more opinion here than fact. Studies are cited, experts interviewed, but so much of the book is the author's subjective fears about the future.
And these fears undercut the conclusion in which the author takes a far more optimistic tone, one which he barely adopts throughout the previous chapters.
That being said, there were still some decent insights and I wasn't bored.
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February 28, 2022Far too many books about current societal trends highlight a few attention-grabbing anecdotes, make some rather superficial comments, and don't get much farther than that. This book does relate a number of anecdotes, but the balance is better, and the discussion is more thoughtful and thorough than it is in many similar books. The author develops some pretty interesting ideas, such as observing and analyzing the many different ways the Internet world is commercialized and prompts people (or companies) to make money off of themselves or others. He occasionally includes himself in the book, describing his own efforts to experiment with Internet culture (which were usually dismal failures), and is honest about both what attracts him and repels him.
Though the book is more of a discussion than an argument, I still didn't always agree with the author. For example, I did not find the section about gossip and shame very persuasive. Also, the author asserts more than once that the rise in Internet culture is linked to a decline in feelings of genuine connection and community; this claim may be true, but it needs more evidence to support it.
One of the things I liked the least about the book was the title, and the frequent use of the term "Peep Culture" or just "Peep." Surely there must be a better name for this phenomenon -- a name that does not conjure up images of a creep in the bushes, or a marshmallow bunny.
Though the book is more of a discussion than an argument, I still didn't always agree with the author. For example, I did not find the section about gossip and shame very persuasive. Also, the author asserts more than once that the rise in Internet culture is linked to a decline in feelings of genuine connection and community; this claim may be true, but it needs more evidence to support it.
One of the things I liked the least about the book was the title, and the frequent use of the term "Peep Culture" or just "Peep." Surely there must be a better name for this phenomenon -- a name that does not conjure up images of a creep in the bushes, or a marshmallow bunny.
July 21, 2015
"The Peep Diaries " was a rather biased look at the societal trends that includes social media and reality TV shows. The writing was poorly organized and had a strong tendency to wander without making a point of much, just some anecdotal evidence to back up the author's claims. It would definitely have benefited from a good editor and better organization. Although there were a few interesting stories and some good points, the book seemed to serve little purpose. I think the book is okay, but I definitely would not recommend it.
March 14, 2015
Toplumda bireyler arası iletişimin ve davranışların geçmişten bugüne nasıl değiştiğini anlatan, detaylı anlatıma ve örneklere sahip bir kitap. Dünyanın neden eskisi gibi olmadığını, insanların neden "artık bir garip davrandığını" ve davranışlarımızın, hatta düşüncelerimizin bizim kontrolümüzde olduğunu düşünsek de aslında dışarıdan nasıl yönetildiğini etkileyici bir şekilde anlatıyor.
July 1, 2013
Interesting topic but messily arranged, and also a bit redundant.
August 17, 2025
Dikizleme merakımızın kökeninin dedikoduya uzandığını biliyor muydunuz? Endüstri devriminden önce insanlar küçük topluluklar halinde yaşıyordu ve onları kolektif bir ruh ve ortak ihtiyaçları bir araya getiriyordu. Dedikodu ise topluma polis rolü vermişti. Sosyal normların dışına çıkarsanız fark edilirsiniz ve hakkınızda dedikodular başlar. Daha ileri giderseniz toplumdan aforoz edilmeye kadar varır. O zamanlarda sosyalleşme, ilkel insanların hayatta kalabilmesinin temel koşuluydu; evrimleri tamamen buna dayanıyordu. Halbuki çürük elmaları ve katkı sağlamaya yanaşmayan beleşçileri büyük ve dağınık gruplarda fişlemek zordur, bu da onları grubun bir adım önüne geçirir. Gruptaki üyelerden birinin güvenilmez olduğu bilgisinin yayılması zaman alır. Bu açıdan bakıldığında, dedikodu beleşçilerin icabına bakmak için bulunmuş bir yöntemmiş. (Kitapta ayrıca dedikodunun dil gelişimine katkılarından bahsedilen kısımlar da ilginçti.) Ayıplanma ve dışlanma korkusu toplumun polisiymiş. Zamanımızda ise insanlar artık ayıplanmaktan korkmuyor. Yaşadığımız sosyal çevre ve toplum değişti. Her yerde gelip geçici oluşumuz, kendimizi durmadan yeniden inşa etmemizi sağlıyor. Utanç duymamız mümkün değil çünkü bizi her şekilde tanıyan, dedikodumuzu yapan, toplum standartlarına aykırı davranıyor muyuz diye sürekli kontrol eden sınırlı bir grup içinde değiliz. Bunun sonucunda, diğer insanların bizi fark etmesine ihtiyaç duyarız. Diğerlerinden ayırt edilebildiğimizi, kitleler tarafından yok sayılmadığımızı anlamak için ayıplanmaya bile gönüllü katlanırız. Ama kimse bizi tanımaz, biz de kimseyi tanımayız. Bu nedenle sürekli kim olduğumuza dair sinyaller gönderir, derhal anlaşılmak için çabalarız. Dürtülerimiz ilkel ama artık yaşadığımız toplum aynı değil. Toplu halde yaşamayı özlüyor ama bunun için gerekli olan benimsemeye yanaşmıyoruz. 21. Yüzyılın dayattığı toplum fotoğrafında kendimize bir yer edinmeye çalışıyoruz. Doğal olarak da kitle iletişim araçlarının bize şöhret bahşetmesini arzuluyoruz, çünkü bu toplum böyle oluştu. Aslında bu bir anti-toplum. Sanal alemde birbirimizi tanımaya çalışırken tartışmalı bir toplumun parçası olmak için umutsuzca çırpınıyoruz...
January 6, 2018
Popüler kültürün doruk noktası"Dikizleme Kültürü". Hal'ın incelmesi sosyal medya üzerinden her birimizin ne kadar hızlı metalaştığını incelikli olarak tartışıyor. Sosyal kimliklerimizin ve gerçek hayatımızın uyumsuzluklarının trajedisi. Her şeyin bir eğlenceden "Büyük Birader Seni İzliyor"a dönüşmesi. Evet yaşadığınız çağda burada ve yazdıklarımı okuyorsanız sizin de benim de mahremiyetimiz kalmadı. Kendi hayatlarımızı ve düşüncelerimizi pazarlarken zevk bile aldık çünkü popüler hayatın ultra ünlüleriyle yarışacağımızı aklımıza getirdik. Paylaştıklarımız, beğendiklerimiz ve fotoğraflarımız bir reklam ürününe dönüşmemize yol açtı. Vurucu bir fikir ama duygu yok, yapaylık seviyesi çok güçlü. Kitapta bir çok önemli analize tanıklık edeceksiniz. Benzerlerini yaşamış olma olasılığı yüksek.
Ortalama bir insan 150 kişilik bir grubun içinde yaşar, kitabın kapanış bölümü "Geleceğin Dikizleme Algısı: Neden Kimse Partime Gelmedi ki ve Diğer Açık Uçlu Sonuçlar" normal yaşantınızı sarsacak cinste. Dikizleme Günlüğü varolanı eleştirdiği kadar övüyor da çünkü bunun bir alt kültür yaratma potansiyeli de mevcut. Uç noktaları değerlendirirken özgürlüğün popüler kültürün bize empoze ettiği gibi olmadığını da fark ediyorsunuz.
Karanlıktan korktuğumuz için dikizliyoruz bundan zevk alırken geriye içimizdeki boşluk kalıyor.
Ortalama bir insan 150 kişilik bir grubun içinde yaşar, kitabın kapanış bölümü "Geleceğin Dikizleme Algısı: Neden Kimse Partime Gelmedi ki ve Diğer Açık Uçlu Sonuçlar" normal yaşantınızı sarsacak cinste. Dikizleme Günlüğü varolanı eleştirdiği kadar övüyor da çünkü bunun bir alt kültür yaratma potansiyeli de mevcut. Uç noktaları değerlendirirken özgürlüğün popüler kültürün bize empoze ettiği gibi olmadığını da fark ediyorsunuz.
Karanlıktan korktuğumuz için dikizliyoruz bundan zevk alırken geriye içimizdeki boşluk kalıyor.
December 1, 2021
Gözetlemeye ve gözetim altında tutulmaya dair eğlenceli bir dille yazılmış bir kitap Dikizleme Günlüğü.
Kitabı ilginç kılan yazarın Dikizleme Kültürü’nü birinci elden deneyimleme girişimlerinde bulunmuş olması; örneğin blog yazıyor, arka bahçesine bir kamera sistemi kurduruyor, karısını GPS üzerinden takip ediyor. Bu nedenle başlıkta günlük ifadesini kullanılmış. Ve anlatıcı olarak Hal’ın kitap boyunca varlığının belirgin olması fark yaratmış, sanki dikizleme kültürünü birlikte dikizliyormuşuz gibi hissettiriyor. Diğer yandan yazarın kafasında da belirgin reçeteler yok, sadece bizi izlemeye ve izlenmeye iten nedenleri araştırmak istiyor. Neticede iki önemli olguya dikkat çekilmiş 1-dikizleme olgusunun popüler kültürün eseri olduğu 2-bireylerin kültürlerinden ve toplumlarından hızla ve doğal olmayan yöntemlerle kopartılarak yalnızlaştırılması. Bir diğer not, örneklerin ağırlıklı olarak ABD, İngiltere ve Kanada’dan verilmesi Türk okuyucuyu konuya fazla yabancı hissettirebilir-ki Google’da şartlı tahliye yok. internette hiçbir şey silinmiyor söylemine rağmen aradıklarınızdan bazısını bulamıyorsunuz bile- İkincisi, dikizlemek için ve dikizlenmek için kullandığımız kanallar değişmesine rağmen bu olgunun zamanla daha da derinleştiğini, kök saldığını fark etmek. Son not; partine yalnızca bir kişinin katıldığını açıkladığın son bölümde gerçekten üzüldüm Hal :)
Kitabı ilginç kılan yazarın Dikizleme Kültürü’nü birinci elden deneyimleme girişimlerinde bulunmuş olması; örneğin blog yazıyor, arka bahçesine bir kamera sistemi kurduruyor, karısını GPS üzerinden takip ediyor. Bu nedenle başlıkta günlük ifadesini kullanılmış. Ve anlatıcı olarak Hal’ın kitap boyunca varlığının belirgin olması fark yaratmış, sanki dikizleme kültürünü birlikte dikizliyormuşuz gibi hissettiriyor. Diğer yandan yazarın kafasında da belirgin reçeteler yok, sadece bizi izlemeye ve izlenmeye iten nedenleri araştırmak istiyor. Neticede iki önemli olguya dikkat çekilmiş 1-dikizleme olgusunun popüler kültürün eseri olduğu 2-bireylerin kültürlerinden ve toplumlarından hızla ve doğal olmayan yöntemlerle kopartılarak yalnızlaştırılması. Bir diğer not, örneklerin ağırlıklı olarak ABD, İngiltere ve Kanada’dan verilmesi Türk okuyucuyu konuya fazla yabancı hissettirebilir-ki Google’da şartlı tahliye yok. internette hiçbir şey silinmiyor söylemine rağmen aradıklarınızdan bazısını bulamıyorsunuz bile- İkincisi, dikizlemek için ve dikizlenmek için kullandığımız kanallar değişmesine rağmen bu olgunun zamanla daha da derinleştiğini, kök saldığını fark etmek. Son not; partine yalnızca bir kişinin katıldığını açıkladığın son bölümde gerçekten üzüldüm Hal :)
October 1, 2023
This book is a mess and it does not stand the test of time.
It is a bit cringe at times, as 15 years have passed
It is a bit cringe at times, as 15 years have passed
February 19, 2022
Farkında mısınız? “Dikizleme Çağı”na çoktan girdik. Hem de hiç hissetmeden. Sanki hep o çağı yaşıyormuşçasına ve büyük bir hızla. Realiti şovlarla başladı her şey. Sonra YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter girdi hayatımıza. Yetmedi, casus yazılımlar, bloglar, sohbet odaları, amatör porno videoları ve MOBESE kameralar da dahil oldu. Artık hayatlarımız sır olmak-tan çıktı; ayrıntı denizinde yüzer olduk. Bizler sürekli başkalarını dikizlerken, birileri de bizi dikizliyor her an. Bu yeni durum, biz farkına varmaksızın, mahremiyet, bireysellik, güvenlik, hatta insanlık algımızı bile değiştirdi, değiştiriyor.
Hal Niedzviecki, keskin zekâsıyla bu değişimin farkına varanlardan. Hatta fark yaratanlardan diyebiliriz. Çünkü o, bu yeni âlemde bir yolculuğa çıkıyor ve tüm maceralarını bize eğlenceli bir üslupla anlatıyor. Yolculuğu, video bloglarla başlıyor; ardından sosyal paylaşım siteleri geliyor. Derken küçük kızının güvenliği için evdeki dadıyı, hırsızlardan korunmak için arka bahçesini dikizliyor. Realiti şovlara başvuruyor. Özel dedektif tutuyor. Deneyimlerini günlüğüne not ederken, analizleriyle günlüğe sosyolojik bir boyut katıyor. Ve bizlere çok hayati bir soru yöneltiyor: Bu ağın üzerindeki örümcek miyiz; yoksa ağa yakalanmış birer sinek mi?
Dikizleme Günlüğü, yeni iletişim araçlarının yalnızca eğlence sektörünü değil, toplumu da değiştirdiğini, bu yeni kültürün seks, politika ve gündelik yaşantımız üzerindeki etkilerini ortaya koyuyor. Kitapta, realiti şovların parlayıp sönen yıldızları, çok okunan blog yazarları ve sosyal paylaşım sitelerinin yaratıcılarıyla yapılan söyleşiler, konuya ilişkin son akademik araştırmalarla harmanlanarak sunuluyor. Bu sayede popüler kültürün röntgenciliğe, röntgenciliğin belgesele, sanata ve haber bültenlerine, röntgencinin gazeteciye nasıl dönüştüğüne tanık oluyoruz.
January 12, 2010
First the positives.
I really liked the author's tone throughout the book, he made me feel like he was talking directly to me. He's also clearly passionate about the subject of this book which made it easy and exciting to read. Going into this book, I thought it was solely about Internet - namely, Facebook and other social networks and so on.
But I was pleased to see that it involved all of Peep culture, everything from crime shows (is it irony I sat down with this book for the first time while I watched AMW?) to the Nanny State, etc. etc. I really did learn a lot about a subject that I already thought I knew a lot about, always a bonus.
Niedzviecki is also Canadian, as am I, and I really appreciated all the Canadian content, in almost all cases I knew exactly what streets and places he was referring to. And in true Peep style, I was interested in knowing more about him, so what did I do? Look him up on Facebook, of course.
I really, really enjoyed his writing and this subject, and plan on taking out another of this author's books next time I head to the library.
Negatives.
I found that it was written TOO much in depth, that in some cases the author kept going on with explanations to keep hammering down his point way after it was proven. This caused me to roll my eyes and skip past some paragraphs.
My book, (which was a library book and I was the very first to loan it out) had two Chapter 6's and no Chapter 4. No pages were missing, this was clearly a mistake in printing which really bothered me.
I really liked the author's tone throughout the book, he made me feel like he was talking directly to me. He's also clearly passionate about the subject of this book which made it easy and exciting to read. Going into this book, I thought it was solely about Internet - namely, Facebook and other social networks and so on.
But I was pleased to see that it involved all of Peep culture, everything from crime shows (is it irony I sat down with this book for the first time while I watched AMW?) to the Nanny State, etc. etc. I really did learn a lot about a subject that I already thought I knew a lot about, always a bonus.
Niedzviecki is also Canadian, as am I, and I really appreciated all the Canadian content, in almost all cases I knew exactly what streets and places he was referring to. And in true Peep style, I was interested in knowing more about him, so what did I do? Look him up on Facebook, of course.
I really, really enjoyed his writing and this subject, and plan on taking out another of this author's books next time I head to the library.
Negatives.
I found that it was written TOO much in depth, that in some cases the author kept going on with explanations to keep hammering down his point way after it was proven. This caused me to roll my eyes and skip past some paragraphs.
My book, (which was a library book and I was the very first to loan it out) had two Chapter 6's and no Chapter 4. No pages were missing, this was clearly a mistake in printing which really bothered me.
May 9, 2013
peeping is a form of communication. We, human, want to communicate so bad that there are actually no taboo in the modern days: people perform for either money or fame, or simply wanted to be care..We peep others, and we wanted to be peeped, so we want to get noticed, and to be cared...various senzationalistic shows about reality, Truman Show like exposing the ugly truth of human interraction and conflicts can be seen in Northern American continents..people love these shows, so they want to discover something they are in common with, but in a shocking fashion..in which commonly no shocking at all..it is just "we", "us", and "who we are"..further this book talks about our identities are being stolen for various use since we like to expose our blogs, webs, RSS, dairies, so much..our intimacies, privacies have never been so "usual"..so overlook that somedays, these public informations will come back and haunt us..this book never talks about how our informations got leaked..thru FB, GOOG, DIGG, Apple, could be? could be not? The end with a great conclusion that perhaps sometime, something left a bit mysterious would be the only fabric that retain some forms of humanities and dignities..instead of full exposure.
January 18, 2016
Pop culture has become peep culture: reality TV, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and more. "We have entered the age of peep culture, a tell-all, show-all, know-all phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, and even humanity. In the Age of Peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing." (From the back cover.)
Hal Niedzviecki writes with humour and insight about technology's effect on us all. How do we achieve the sense of connection and community that we seek in peep culture without being consumed, reduced and debased? Humans are social animals and so it isn't surprising that we can so easily find ourselves addicted to watching or reading strangers' lives. Niedzviecki's conclusion is that there is a benefit in not knowing. "So much of the mystery of life, so much of its inherent, unquantifiable worth, comes from that which remains a mystery. It's not knowing that makes us fall in love, that allows us to appreciate beauty, that permits us to revel in the moment despite the indisputable fact that one day we will be sick and that one day we will be dead."
Hal Niedzviecki writes with humour and insight about technology's effect on us all. How do we achieve the sense of connection and community that we seek in peep culture without being consumed, reduced and debased? Humans are social animals and so it isn't surprising that we can so easily find ourselves addicted to watching or reading strangers' lives. Niedzviecki's conclusion is that there is a benefit in not knowing. "So much of the mystery of life, so much of its inherent, unquantifiable worth, comes from that which remains a mystery. It's not knowing that makes us fall in love, that allows us to appreciate beauty, that permits us to revel in the moment despite the indisputable fact that one day we will be sick and that one day we will be dead."
June 13, 2012
I would most be excited if the emphasis was on "surveillance". That seems to be a better fit umbrella term to cover the issues the author discusses. In most of examples, i felt like there are contradictory or heterogeneous issues but the authors pushes hard to maintain its claim.
Finally, the last section in which he talks about the party he organized and only one showed up, weakens most of his arguments. 30 something followers in Twitter or 700 something Facebook friends do not mean he is an engaged social media user and he did not understand the dynamics of social media engagements. Besides, his intense cynical tone against the subjects he studied might be counter-productive and I am not surprised few showed up:)
Finally, the last section in which he talks about the party he organized and only one showed up, weakens most of his arguments. 30 something followers in Twitter or 700 something Facebook friends do not mean he is an engaged social media user and he did not understand the dynamics of social media engagements. Besides, his intense cynical tone against the subjects he studied might be counter-productive and I am not surprised few showed up:)
August 9, 2009
The subject matter is interesting. Why DO we blog about ourselves or read blogs about others? What is the obsession with twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social "networking" sites?
Niedzviecki tries to shine some light on our societies desire to peep into others lives. The problem is the book lacks fluidity. The author is obviously passionate about the subject matter which comes through in the his writing, but it seemed disjointed at times.
Still, I found it thought-provoking. I'm not sure I can ever go on youtube again or read perezhilton.com without feeling a bit disgusted with myself.
Niedzviecki tries to shine some light on our societies desire to peep into others lives. The problem is the book lacks fluidity. The author is obviously passionate about the subject matter which comes through in the his writing, but it seemed disjointed at times.
Still, I found it thought-provoking. I'm not sure I can ever go on youtube again or read perezhilton.com without feeling a bit disgusted with myself.
December 31, 2009
Meh. It made me feel bad as an internet user. Because I read blogs and participate in online communities, I felt that I had no real social life (which is true....). I sure that this was not the intent of the author, to make anybody feel bad about their online habbits, but I did. yet everything he said was true. We feel braver and more outgoing online than in person. We have that anonymity via the internet, it deffinatly made me think. Very thought provoking. Very interesting. I just personally didn't care for it. Sorry.
February 27, 2010
In this book, Hal examines "peep culture." This is the rise of things like reality tv, blogging, surveillance and Facebook. It's an interesting look at way we have become a culture that lets everything hang out, partially due to our increased isolation and need for connection. He doesn't really come to a conclusion about why this is happening, but the results of his search are interesting and illuminating.
My dad thinks Twitter is going to go away; I think he should read this book to understand why these things are NOT going to go away.
My dad thinks Twitter is going to go away; I think he should read this book to understand why these things are NOT going to go away.
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August 1, 2019Neither an anti-digital Luddite crusader nor a gee-whiz technophiliac cheerleader, Hal Niedzviecki offers an even-handed look at computer culture in this book. (Maybe it helps that he's Canadian.) I especially liked his discussion of reality TV shows and the general weirdness surrounding them. Niedzviecki himself applied to be on one of these shows but was rejected, essentially for being too normal. When you hire emotionally unstable show-offs to engage in dangerous acts for the camera, you get the predictable results....
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July 28, 2011"Since we're hardwired to be in near constant social contact with each other, we instinctively seek connection, despite the fact that our culture encourages us to stay safely alone in our mansions, suburban bungalows, or subsidized apartments. We Peep ourselves because we still long for that lost, preindustrial world of constant contact, the way we once knew each other through lengthy, instinctual sessions of grooming that let us connect to each other without a business card, a sales pitch, or a come-on."
September 8, 2013
Milenyum çağında dikizleme günlüğünün ne kadar popüler olduğunu ve başta hobi olarak yapılan şeylerin zamanla yerini bağımlılığa bıraktığını,sonucunda prensip denilen kurallarda sıyrılıp dikizleme dünyasının istediği herşeyi yapan bir durumuna düşmeyi anlatıyor.
"arkadaşlarını Google'da aramanın merak duygusunu tatmin eden bir tür eğlence olduğunu belirtiyor öncelikle.Ayrıca,böyle yaparak internette zaman öldürdüklerini itiraf ediyorlar"
"Dikizleme kültürü" bize kurmacanın gerçekle boy ölçüşemeyeceğini tekrar tekrar ispatlıyor"
"arkadaşlarını Google'da aramanın merak duygusunu tatmin eden bir tür eğlence olduğunu belirtiyor öncelikle.Ayrıca,böyle yaparak internette zaman öldürdüklerini itiraf ediyorlar"
"Dikizleme kültürü" bize kurmacanın gerçekle boy ölçüşemeyeceğini tekrar tekrar ispatlıyor"
October 31, 2009
The subject of this book is interesting. It made me think a lot about how technology (blogs, email, texts, facebook, etc.) is changing how we interact and socialize with each other. I read this book for a bookclub, and then was too sick to go to the meeting. I do think it would be a fun book to discuss though because everyone "peeps."
I bought this book from Amazon because they didn't have it in the library, if anyone is interested in reading it let me know and I will send it to you!
I bought this book from Amazon because they didn't have it in the library, if anyone is interested in reading it let me know and I will send it to you!
December 1, 2009
This book was a truly fascinating look at how connected we all are now (connected to our computers, to twitter, to email, to blogs...and on and on and on)...and how disconnected it's making us from the rest of the world. It made me feel a little uncomfortable to read, knowing how much I rely on the internet as a connection to the outside world. I highly recommend this book if you're into online culture...it's fascinating.
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July 26, 2011Good but could have been more interesting. His argument is not controversial -- celebrity, 15 minutes of fame, reality tv, voyeurism, social networking etc are all symptoms of a society seeking to connect and reestablish the village of our ancestors all the while hiding behind the veil of privacy desperately seeking to alleviate our loneliness which is our fate in the modern urban world. In the end he's not sure if its a problem or not.
September 7, 2009
I thought the author did a good job of describing peep culture but did not do enough to analyze and then take a stand on whether he thought all of this technology such as facebook, twitter and reality tv are helping us. My favorite quote, from the founders of twitter, "it's connection with very low expectation."
October 28, 2009
Writing style is a bit choppy but the points are thought-provoking...I read a review here on Goodreads that says it this way "We're all following you online. And we don't care about you." That about sums up the point--we are anomic and nosey. It was very interesting to read this book within 6 weeks of joining Facebook.
February 16, 2011
A fascinating look at why reality television, social networking, and surveillance are so widely used and often enjoyed. It made me seriously rethink the information I have made available online, as well as privacy and community in today's technology-rich environment. The author adds just enough personal examples, and he doesn't take himself too seriously.
March 12, 2016
Privacy is dead, we all know that, but just exactly how dead surprised even jaded old me. An excellent behind the scenes look at reality TV and social networking sites. I doubt that anyone really believes reality TV is real, but I loved the author's explanation. "It's real people watching real people being watched. " And there you have it.
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