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Additional Physical Format: | Vaidhyanathan, Siva, author. Antisocial media. New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018] |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Siva Vaidhyanathan |
ISBN: | 9780190841164 0190841168 |
OCLC Number: | 1050083621 |
Description: | 1 v. (276 p.) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The protest machine -- The politics machine -- The disinformation machine |
Responsibility: | Siva Vaidhyanathan. |
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Siva Vaidhyanathan's Antisocial Media ... is the best tech-sceptic book of the year, by an academic who writes like a human. Even better, Vaidhyanathan's insights into the destructive power of Facebook are truly global, taking in Modi's India and Duterte's Philippines. * Helen Lewis, Books of the Year 2018, New Statesman * Vaidhyanathan writes with conviction and a deep sense of history. His research is sharp and diverse. * Jinoy Jose P, The Hindu Business Line * An excellent critique * John Naughton, The Observer * What distinguishes Vaidhyanathan's book from others is not only the depth of his research, but the fact that Facebook in placed into a larger social, historical and political context, thus delivering a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the company over the past years. * Felix Simon, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * This thoroughly researched and persuasively argued account of social media's noxious effects on the very fabric of society is the first study of its kind: a trenchant analysis of Facebook's unwholesome side effects. It needed saying, and it's supremely well said. * Juanita Coulson, The Lady * [an] elegant new book * Des Freedman, openDemocracy * The book is of great value to both students of media-related disciplines and to the general public. Written in a commendably accessible style and largely free of academic jargon, it is likely to appeal to (and benefit) anyone willing to better understand the world in which we are deeply immersed a social-mediatised world. * LSE Review of Books * Read more...


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