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Author Vaidhyanathan, Siva, author

Title Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy / Siva Vaidhyanathan
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Contents The pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The protest machine -- The politics machine -- The disinformation machine
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2020)
SUBJECT Facebook (Electronic resource) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007076967
Facebook (Electronic resource) fast (OCoLC)fst01781798
Subject Social media -- Political aspects -- United States
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- United States
Internet addiction -- United States
Truthfulness and falsehood -- United States
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations.
Internet addiction.
Social media -- Political aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
United States.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018020847
ISBN 9780190841171
0190841176
9780190841188
0190841184
Other Titles Anti-social media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy