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Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan
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- Summary
- "If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize 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 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. Facebook grew out of an ideological commitment to data-driven decision making and logical thinking. Its culture is explicitly tolerant of difference and dissent. Both its market orientation and its labor force are global. It preaches the power of connectivity to change lives for the better. Indeed, no company better represents the dream of a fully connected planet "sharing" words, ideas, and images, and no company has better leveraged those ideas into wealth and influence. Yet no company has contributed more to the global collapse of basic tenets of deliberation and democracy. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong." -- Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: the problem with Facebook is Facebook
- The pleasure machine
- The surveillance machine
- The attention machine
- The benevolence machine
- The protest machine
- The politics machine
- The disinformation machine
- Conclusion: the nonsense machine
- Isbn
- 9780190841164
- Label
- Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
- Title
- Antisocial media
- Title remainder
- how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy
- Statement of responsibility
- Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Title variation
- Anti-social media
- Subject
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- Internet addiction -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Social media -- Political aspects
- Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- United States
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- United States
- United States
- Social media -- Political aspects -- United States
- Internet addiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize 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 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. Facebook grew out of an ideological commitment to data-driven decision making and logical thinking. Its culture is explicitly tolerant of difference and dissent. Both its market orientation and its labor force are global. It preaches the power of connectivity to change lives for the better. Indeed, no company better represents the dream of a fully connected planet "sharing" words, ideas, and images, and no company has better leveraged those ideas into wealth and influence. Yet no company has contributed more to the global collapse of basic tenets of deliberation and democracy. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong." -- Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva
- Dewey number
- 302.23/1
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Social media
- Communication in politics
- Internet addiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- Internet addiction
- Social media
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Label
- Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: the problem with Facebook is Facebook -- The pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The protest machine -- The politics machine -- The disinformation machine -- Conclusion: the nonsense machine
- Control code
- on1033578153
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190841164
- Lccn
- 2018005206
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40028301816
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1033578153
- Label
- Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: the problem with Facebook is Facebook -- The pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The protest machine -- The politics machine -- The disinformation machine -- Conclusion: the nonsense machine
- Control code
- on1033578153
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780190841164
- Lccn
- 2018005206
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40028301816
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1033578153
Subject
- Internet addiction -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Social media -- Political aspects
- Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- United States
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- United States
- United States
- Social media -- Political aspects -- United States
- Internet addiction
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