ABOUT THIS BOOK

On the End of Privacy explores how literacy is transformed by online technology that lets us instantly publish anything that we can see or hear. Miller examines the 2010 suicide of Tyler Clementi, a young college student who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after he discovered that his roommate spied on him via webcam. With access to the text messages, tweets, and chatroom posts of those directly involved in this tragedy, Miller asks: why did no one intervene to stop the spying? Searching for an answer to that question leads Miller to online porn sites, the invention of Facebook, the court-martial of Chelsea Manning, the contents of Hillary Clinton’s email server, Anthony Weiner’s sexted images, Chatroulette, and more as he maps out the changing norms governing privacy in the digital age.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Richard E. Miller is a professor in the English Department at Rutgers University.

REVIEWS

“This brilliant book asks profoundly disturbing questions. How might we read and write, think and live when never-disappearing textual selves circulate wildly? How might we teach and learn when screens—and their embodied knowledges, half-truths, and malevolencies—are utterly ubiquitous, endlessly connectable? Miller lucidly stories his way toward answers, braiding narratives that enact as provocatively as they evoke.” —Doug Hesse, The University of Denver

"Miller uncovers what it means to be living in a world where anyone can hide behind a screen but anything, once written on a screen, can't be hidden." —Charlee Dyroff, Columbia Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface: Goodbye to All That

Acknowledgments

Chapter One. On Chance, Distraction, and the Prepared Mind

Chapter Two. On the Persistence of the Digital Past

Chapter Three. On Willful Ignorance

Chapter Four. On the Private Pleasures of Looking

Chapter Five. On Getting Caught in the Act

Chapter Six. On the Mundanity of Cruelty

Chapter Seven. On Virtual Communities and Embodied Realities

Chapter Eight. On Viewing Parties

Chapter Nine. On Suicide

Chapter Ten. On Bullies, Bullying, and Fault-Finding

Chapter Eleven. On Guilt

Chapter Twelve. On Meaningfulness

Coda: On Already Out-of-Date Updates

Bibliography by Chapter

Index

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