Log Off

Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix

Katherine Cross

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English

LittlePuss Press
11 September 2024

Social services & welfare, criminology

A blistering, informed, and hilarious argument on how social media and political activism are fated never to intertwine.

As seen in Defector, 404 Media, and ESC KEY

""One of the most thought-provoking books I have read all year."" -Largehearted Boy

Social media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but ""he's merely Twitter's all-too-Dantean punishment."" In this impassioned, funny, and deeply thoughtful essay, Katherine Cross excavates a fallen world of social media's political promises-from Twitter epidemiology to revolutionary organizing-and its frustratingly inescapable joys. A kind, incisive, and barbed love letter from one of the millennial generation's wisest essayists, Log Off offers a path out of the doomscroll and into a future where we can organize and live.

By: Katherine Cross
Imprint: LittlePuss Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781736716861
ISBN 10: 1736716867
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 11 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katherine Alejandra Cross's writings have appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Baffler, The Verge, and numerous other publications. She is a PhD candidate at the University of WashingtonSchool of Information, where she's studying online harassment and social media (for her sins).

Reviews for Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix

"""Clear, funny, humane and game-changing. The internet brings out the worst of humanity, but Cross might be the best person on it. With razor-sharp logic and empathetic vision, she guides us away from posing and posting toward the work of building a better world."" --Jude Ellison S. Doyle, author of Dead Blondes & Bad Mothers and Trainwreck ""Serves as a gateway between epochs: a past where the internet still gave hope of collective, grassroots organizing, and a future where we have squandered that potential for a couple cheap laughs and ephemeral popularity. Log Off proffers a world where we take digital citizenship as a serious and valuable tool--just one of many in the toolbox--for building a better world. As someone whose posts have changed the world and who is guilty many times over of the sins Katherine describes, I cannot agree more."" --Emily Gorcenski"