Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

by Siva Vaidhyanathan

Book Overview

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 this fully updated paperback edition of Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190841168
• ISBN13: 9780190841164
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"