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Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
ISBN
9780316703307
Book Title
Chaos Machine : the inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Item Length
8.2in
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Publication Year
2023
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1in
Author
Max Fisher
Genre
Psychology, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Social History, Social Psychology, Sociology / Social Theory
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism From a New York Times investigative reporter, this "authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media" ( New York Times Book Review ) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement--and profits--at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is "an essential book for our times" (Ezra Klein). We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear. His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it's too late.

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316703303
ISBN-13
9780316703307
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12058793411

Product Key Features

Book Title
Chaos Machine : the inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Author
Max Fisher
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Social History, Social Psychology, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Psychology, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
432 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hm742.F53 2023
Reviews
"Social media isn't just changing our lives. It's changing the world, and even its creators and would-be overseers have only the foggiest ideas about how. In this meticulously reported, grippingly told account, Max Fisher chases the results across continents, and paints a disturbing picture of not just where we are, but where we're going. The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times. "-- Ezra Klein, author of the New York Times bestseller Why We're Polarized
Dewey Decimal
302.23/1
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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