Word: voyeurismã
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...narcissistic in face-to-face conversation, somehow become socially acceptable when affirmed in the impersonal space of the Internet, where the safe barrier of the computer screen, and the absence of fact-checkers, separates the poster from the viewer and reality from fiction. The pervasive force of modern voyeurism??€”the fact that we can know intimate details about a person’s life and relationships without ever interacting with them, whether through Facebook, tabloids, or reality television—allows us to keep on looking, without examining the perverseness of transforming the act of viewing into...
...book—the first since his award-winning debut novel The Perfect Storm—he brings together previously published essays from the world’s front lines in a stunningly rich montage of people and death. In essence, it is a book about voyeurism??€”about our need to watch from the front lines of a war or to stare transfixed at dancing flames of fire—but the underlying messages go far deeper...
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