Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy

The Resource Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
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Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
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how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
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Language
eng
Summary
If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energise 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 this book, 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.--
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Target audience
specialized
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