03252nam a2200301   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001300102041000800115050002300123100003500146245007000181250003900251260003500290300002400325504005600349505016900405520211900574600004002693650002302733650003802756942001202794999001902806952012502825BJBSDDR20251031131214.0ta250818s2025    nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780385549738  a0385549733  bengcDLC  aeng14aHQ 759bH586s 20251 aHess, Amanda Stromwall 94432910aSecond life : bhaving a child in the digital age /cAmanda Hess   aFirst Doubleday hardcover edition.  aNew York : bDoubleday, c2025  a257 pages ; b22 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-257)0 aPreface: Alma -- Introduction: Confrontation -- Cycle -- Bump -- Life -- Risk -- Nature -- Birth -- Interlude: "Alma" -- Work -- Gear -- Growth -- Judgment -- Free.  a"Before I was pregnant, I was a person." The long awaited debut memoir about the convergence of parenthood and technology from the beloved New York Times critic. In 2016, when Amanda arrived at the New York Times to become its correspondent for Internet culture, a colleague asked her a question that sounded like a riddle: "On the Internet, how do you know what's really real?" He had been looking for a literal answer, but Amanda recognized the question as something more profound, an irresolvable provocation that defines the experience of life in the digital age. For more than a decade, Amanda has been on the reality beat, living the contradictions of the Internet even as she has tried to make sense of them. But when she discovered she was pregnant with her first child, who later received a prenatal diagnosis of Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome--a genetic disorder--she was unexpectedly rattled by a digital identity crisis all her own, vulnerable to the world of apps, gadgets, bloggers, online forums, and advertisers, all closing in, telling her what to do and how to feel. They promised that her new life--and by extension, her child's--would be so much better if she bought this or that, tried this or that. As the Internet sought to remap her body and her mind, Amanda's guiding question became ever more urgent: what is "real life" when creating a life? Second Life is a trenchant look at parenting in early 21st-century America, when humans stopped being raised by villages or even families but rather by a constant onslaught of information. It is a funny, heartbreaking, and surreal examination of fertility apps, the history of ultrasound technologies, prenatal genetic testing, rare disease Facebook groups, baby memes, cultural representations of parenting, gender reveal videos, trendy sleep gurus, "freebirth" influencers, mommy marketers, culminating in a polemic on how to conceive of a real life in the digital age. Page by page, Amanda reveals the unspoken ways that our lives are being fractured and reconstituted by technology, all through the exacting lens of her intensely personal story10aHess, Amanda c(Journalist) 945629 4aMaternidad 926853 4aInternetxAspectos sociales91307  2lcccBK  c124798d124798  00102lcc40708CSaBJBbBJBcCSd2025-08-18l0oHQ 759 H586s 2025p00000194994r2025-08-18 13:05:00t1w2025-08-18yBK