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Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Max Fisher unfolds the definitive account of how the social-media harms that sometimes began in forgotten pockets of the world saw their dark culmination in American through the pandemic, the 2020 election, and Capitol Insurrection. The result is an intimately detailed account of the consequences of the polarization that social media incubates: the cancellations, the omnipotence of hate speech, and the spillover into real-world violence.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; cm
Description
"A former FBI Special Agent, U.S. Army officer and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of modern warfareand how we can protect ourselves and our country against them. lint Watts electrified the nation when he testified in front of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding Russian interference...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Meme Wars is the first major account of how "Stop the Steal" went from online to real life, from the wires to the weeds. Leading media expert Joan Donovan, PhD, veteran tech journalist Emily Dreyfuss, and cultural ethnographer Brian Friedberg pull back the curtain on the digital war rooms in which a vast collection of antiestablishmentarians bond over hatred of liberal government and media. Together as a motley reactionary army, they use memes and...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 272 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"Conservative journalist Allum Bokhari examines how the liberal-leaning elites of Silicon Valley have completely overtaken social media, creating a crisis for privacy and freedom of expression"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"David French examines the depths of the American ideological divide, diagnoses its core causes, and provides a hopeful path forward. Polarization. Tribalization. Division. Some look at the growing political tension in our nation and call it a "cold civil war." Others say it's nothing more than the culture war of the last three decades, amplified beyond reason by social media. David French argues that it's something else-the beginning of a national...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Description
From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Facebook lleva varios años en el ojo del huracán. Desde que estalló el escándalo de Cambridge Analytica y la campaña de desinformación rusa intenta esquivar una avalancha de controversias y demandas relacionadas con su estrategia empresarial. Mientras el gigante tecnológico presume de crear un mundo interconectado en el que poder expresarse con libertad, viola la privacidad de sus usuarios y propaga una epidemia de desinformación tóxica y...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, "Twitter wars"produce real-world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations....
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation--the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth--and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including...
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