Antisocial media

how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy

276 pages

English language

Published April 12, 2018

ISBN:
978-0-19-084116-4
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OCLC Number:
1033578153

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3 stars (3 reviews)

"If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It's an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems...Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong."--Book description, Amazon.com.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Social media
  • Internet addiction
  • Technological innovations
  • Communication in politics
  • Truthfulness and falsehood

Places

  • United States

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