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Anti-social media : how Facebook disconnects US and undermines democracy / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Facebook (Electronic resource).
- Social media--Political aspects--United States.
- Social media.
- Communication in politics--Technological innovations--United States.
- Communication in politics.
- Internet addiction--United States.
- Internet addiction.
- Truthfulness and falsehood--United States.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Other Title:
- Antisocial media
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This is the story of 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 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 it by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines.
- Contents:
- The pleasure machine
- The surveillance machine
- The attention machine
- The benevolence machine
- The protest machine
- The politics machine
- The disinformation machine.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-760082-4
- 0-19-084118-4
- 0-19-084117-6
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