Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
Vaidhyanathan, Siva2018
Book
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.
Main title:
Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Author:
Vaidhyanathan, Siva, author
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]©2018
Collation:
276 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780190841164 (hbk)
Dewey class:
302.231
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2715958