{"id":1681,"date":"2021-05-09T07:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:54:28","slug":"1681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/05\/09\/1681\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: &#8216;A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can&#8217;t Crack&#8217; &#8211; 12 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1682\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-09-at-07.33.34-1024x484.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-09-at-07.33.34-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-09-at-07.33.34-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-09-at-07.33.34-768x363.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-09-at-07.33.34-1536x726.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/05\/Screenshot-2021-05-09-at-07.33.34-2048x968.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This week, we&#8217;re reflecting on the romance of an unsolved mystery, what it takes to be truly &#8216;off grid&#8217;, and the ethics of using technology to find someone who doesn&#8217;t want to be found.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<h3><strong>&#8220;<span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">SOMETIMES the most <\/span>alluring stories we tell are the ones with the details left out. Objects and faces can be prettier in the half light. We see a faint shape and we add the lines and shadows we want. We hear one part of a story and add another part that we hope might be true&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h3>Text (Reading)<\/h3>\r\n<p><strong>Trigger warning:\u00a0<\/strong>these articles contain descriptions of a man&#8217;s unexplained death, and reference domestic abuse.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Nicholas Thompson, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/nameless-hiker-mostly-harmless-internet-mystery\/\">A Nameless Hiker and\u00a0 the Case the Internet Can&#8217;t Crack<\/a>&#8221; and Thompson&#8217;s follow up piece:<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/unsettling-truth-mostly-harmless-hiker\/\">&#8216;The Unsettling\u00a0 Truth about the &#8220;Mostly Harmless&#8221; Hiker&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>&#8220;Time&#8221; and Place<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Wed 12 May, 1 pm<\/li>\r\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/4690415237\">Link<\/a>\u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>About Page Breaks<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome! https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;re reflecting on the romance of an unsolved mystery, what it takes to be truly &#8216;off grid&#8217;, and the ethics of using technology to find someone who doesn&#8217;t want to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":1682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-21","category-page-breaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}