?Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live,? by Jeff Jarvis

According to Jeff Jarvis, defenders of self-exposure on the Internet need all the support they can get. ?I have learned that the more we share, the more we benefit from what others share,? he writes in ?Public Parts.? ?I am a public man. My life is this open book.? Jarvis has built up a speaking and consulting career as a sparring partner for privacy advocates, who he believes ?swarm,? ?fret? and ?worry? too much about the dangers of personal exposure online. Styling himself an advocate of ?publicness,? he has attracted attention by blogging in graphic detail about his successful treatment for prostate cancer. Now, in his second book, he offers himself as a model for citizens across the globe, promising to demonstrate how sharing on the Internet is ?a means for real people to connect with one another.?

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