Hal’s Failed Facebook Party Article in The New York Times
Here’s the article I wrote for the New York Times Magazine about my Failed Facebook party. Sad? So so so sad. I expand quite a bit on why people didn’t come to my party and what that says about social networking and Peep culture in the Peep book.
Peep Talk in St. Louis
I’ll be doing a talk in St. Louis about the rise of Peep Culture and its implications on privacy, happening May 6th at 7 pm. Location: Schlafly Branch Library, St. Louis, 225 N. Euclid Ave. St. Louis, MO 63108.
This event is free and open to the public.
contact # for more information is 314 206 6779.
Campus Peep Talk: University of Mary Washington (Virginia)
I’ll be doing a talk about the rise of Peep Culture on the
It’s being put on by the Saffron Centre, which offers therapy and assessment for young people dealing with all kinds of mental health issues.
For my keynote, I’ll be talking about Peep Culture and its potential relationship to cyberbullying. I’ll look at how easy it is for us to depersonalize other human beings in the course of using their lives for our entertainment, and how teens are particularly susceptible to becoming victims in the age of Peep.
For my workshop, I’ll explore strategies that I’ve used to introduce pop culture to young people and get them to think critically about how pop culture works and how they can ‘take back’ pop culture to make positive changes in their live and communities.
Teaching Kids to Take Back Pop Culture:Many ideas about violence, sexuality, bullying, and body image emerge from a mainstream pop culture that is all too pervasive in our society. In this workshop, based on his award-winning book The Big Book of DIY Pop Culture: A How To Guide for Young Artists, Hal Niedzviecki will explain the importance of teaching students to think critically about pop culture. He will take participants through the kinds of presentations he’s done with young people over the years and share his best techniques to initiate a discussion about pop culture. Hal will explore how workshops on pop culture for young people can address myriad social issues and have a lasting impact on young people thereby gaining a better understanding of the media environment they live in, and how they can use the mass media to create compelling, truthful and important representations of everyday life in their communities. Presenter: Hal Niedzviecki, Author - Thursday
Are We Not Peep?: an examination of the new transparency
With: author Hal Niedzviecki, Professor Alison Hearn and web developer, Glenn Eve
Thursday, December 10th, 2009, 7pm Artspace, 378 Aylmer St., North Tickets: $8 at the door
Hal will be giving a multimedia presentation about the book which will be followed by what I expect to be a lively panel discussion including Hal, Professor Alison Hearn and web developer, Glenn Eve. Questions will centre around how this new culture is changing our world.
Hal Niedzviecki’s writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals across North America including The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Adbusters, the Utne Reader, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, and Geist. He is the author of many books including most recently The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.
Alison Hearn is a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Research in Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University focusing on visual and tele-visual theory and culture, media art activism, and on the university as a cultural and political site. She is currently working on a book about reality television entitled Real Incorporated: Explorations in reality television and contemporary visual culture.
Glenn Eve has spent the last 30 years designing software applications for national and multinational organizations. He has also spent way too much time pulling projects back from the flaming abyss. His new venture, purpledog Digital, creates web based interactive story telling tools for small businesses who simply need to get the job done.
It’s at 8pm at McNally Robinson bookstore, which is in the Shops of Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills Road, Toronto.
I’ll be showing Peep clips, talking about the general weirdness of contemporary culture from balloon boy to Raymi the Minx, and generally having a good time.
Come by and say hi and contribute to the discussion.
This event is sponsored by Walrus Magazine as part of their Walrus Reads series at McNally and Walrus staffer and talented writer Stacey May Fowles will host and lob questions at me to get the conversation started.
See ya tonight!
The Peep Diaries at the Northwest Ohio Jewish Book Fair
Start: 11/22/2009 - 10:00 am End: 11/22/2009 - 11:30am
Sunday, November 22 The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki 10 – 11:15 am Spying and peeping have been with us since Moses sent spies to scout out the land of Canaan. In The Peep Diaries, noted social critic Hal Niedzviecki explores the way we’re moving toward a tell-all show-all culture that’s more far reaching than most of us realize, the age of “peep culture”: a digital phenomenon that is altering notions of privacy, individuality, security and even humanity.
The Peep Diaries at The Miami International Book Fair
11/15/2009 - 1:30pm
11/15/2009 - 3:00 pm
I’ll be presenting my new book at the Miami Book Fair together with John Freeman, talking about the history of email’s tyranny. Should be a great discussion about how technology changes humanity.
John Freeman
John Freeman is a writer and book critic who’s written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson page-turner award, and was recently named American editor of Granta. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox (Simon & Schuster), is “closely argued and historically informed,” says James Shapiro. Freeman lives in New York City. Hal Niedzviecki
Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil, a magazine covering zine culture and the indie arts. In addition to three novels and a story collection, Niedzviecki is the author of We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture. His latest, The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (City Lights Books), is a “smart mixture of reportage and reflection (that) avoids alarmism and hype while capturing the strange power of our urge to see and be seen.”—Publishers Weekly.
Hal Brings Peep to Colgate University
Hal Niedzviecki: Colgate Jewish Author Series: Hal Niedzviecki presents The Peep Diaries
Summary: In The Peep Diaries, noted social critic Hal Niedzviecki explores the way we’re moving toward a tell-all-show-all culture that’s more far reaching that most of us realize. The age of “Peep Culture”: a digital phenomenon that is altering notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity.
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Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the author of six books including the novel The Program and the nonfiction book The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves… more...
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