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Antisocial Media : How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780190841171, 0190841176, 9780190841188, 0190841184
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1330665 bytes)
Pages
276\289
Time added
2018-09-09 01:58:29
Social media -- Political aspects -- United States

Description

This is the story of 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 indictment of how ""social media"" has fostered the deterioration of democratic culture around the world, from facilitating Russian meddling in support of Trump's election to the exploitation of it by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines.  Read more... The pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The protest machine -- The politics machine -- The disinformation machine.

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