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Antisocial Media : How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy
Paperback Edition: 1
In this fully updated paperback edition of 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. And 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 the platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Pages : 288
Publication date : 2022-03-27
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Humanities, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Politics, Computing And IT, Psychology, Political Structure & Processes, Social Networking, Abnormal Psychology