Antisocial Media

How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

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Siva Vaidhyanathan: Antisocial Media (2019, Oxford University Press, Incorporated)

288 pages

English language

Published July 14, 2019 by Oxford University Press, Incorporated.

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978-0-19-005654-4
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"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...Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong."--Book description, Amazon.com.

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Subjects

  • Social media
  • Communication in politics
  • Internet addiction
  • Truthfulness and falsehood