The Internet

I’m interested in new ideas about digital life and the self; relationships in a plugged world; memory, place, and space in the time of Facebook; and personal and collective responses to social media. I tend to write pieces of literary nonfiction and memoir that explore and document my deeper, emotional responses to social media and the new ways we communicate.

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Online Mourning and the Unexpected Refuge of Facebook

Instagram Has Ruined Me

Notes on Virtual Life, Part I: The Evolution of Friendship

On (New) Ways of Photographing and Consuming

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  1. Reflections and Shadows: Images (and Musings) on the Self | Writing Through the Fog - June 6, 2012

    [...] Digital Life [...]

  2. The Upside of Facebook Use « Books I Read - November 9, 2011

    [...] For one personal perspective on virtual friendships, please check out Cheri’s five-part series, beginning here. Then move on to Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V. Highly recommended [...]

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