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Antisocial Media : How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Antisocial Media : How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Siva Vaidhyanathan
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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. Read more...
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Year:
2018
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
276
ISBN 10:
0190841184
ISBN 13:
9780190841188
ISBN:
9780190841171,0190841176,9780190841188,0190841184
Your tags:
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;Internet addiction;Social media -- Political aspects;Truthfulness and falsehood;United States
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