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Marc Koralnik |
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ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
How Facebood Has Disconnected Citizens and Undermined Democracy
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.
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA will be a wide-ranging critique of Facebook, and its powerful effects, not just on politics and civic participation, but on our culture in general. It will tell the story of Facebook, from its founding, to its vaunted heyday during the Arab Spring and its initial public offering, and its current dubious role in American politics. It will talk about techno-utopianism of Silicon Valley, and how far Facebook has fallen from the idealism of connecting the world.
SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN is Professor of Media Studies and the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of THE GOOGLIZATION OF EVERYTHING, COPYRIGHTS AND COPYWRONGS, THE ANARCHIST IN THE LIBRARY, and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION. Siva has written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Nation, and Washington Post among many others.
SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN is Professor of Media Studies and the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of THE GOOGLIZATION OF EVERYTHING, COPYRIGHTS AND COPYWRONGS, THE ANARCHIST IN THE LIBRARY, and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION. Siva has written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Nation, and Washington Post among many others.
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Published 2018-05-01 by Oxford University Press |