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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Business |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Levy, Steven. Facebook. New York : Blue Rider Press, [2020] (DLC) 2019047909 (OCoLC)1140508180 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Levy |
ISBN: | 9780735213166 073521316X |
OCLC Number: | 1141857618 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 584 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | ZuckNet -- Ad-boarded -- Thefacebook -- Casa Facebook -- Moral dilemma -- The book of change -- Platform -- Pandemic -- Sheryl world -- Growth! -- Move fast and break things -- Paradigm shift -- Buying the future -- Election -- P for propaganda -- Clown show -- The ugly -- Integrity -- The next Facebook -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | Steven Levy. |
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Abstract:
"In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost 3 billion users. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing 'fake news' accounts, the handling of its users' personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. Based on years of exclusive reporting and interviews with Facebook's key executives and employees, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Levy's sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences"--
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