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The chaos machine : the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world / Max Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Max, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social media--Psychological aspects.
- Social media.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Social media and society.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 389 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Prologue: Consequences
- Trapped in the casino
- Everything is gamergate
- Opening the portal
- Tyranny of cousins
- Awakening the machine
- The fun house mirror
- The germs and the wind
- Church bells
- The rabbit hole
- The new overlords
- Dictatorship of the like
- Infodemic
- Epilogue: Whistleblowing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-375) and index
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780316703321
- 031670332X
- OCLC:
- 1342598831
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