Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Vaidhyanathan, Siva
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Vaidhyanathan, Siva

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years,...
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Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Vaidhyanathan, Siva

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

$208.42
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Vaidhyanathan, Siva

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

$208.42
Author: Siva Vaidhyanathan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era.

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, including a new chapter on the increasing recognition of--and reaction against--Facebook's power in the last couple of years, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains 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 account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems. And 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 the platform by murderous authoritarians in Burma and the Philippines. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong.


Author: Siva Vaidhyanathan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/15/2021
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.14w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190056544

About the Author

Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He produces a local public-affairs television program, several podcasts, and directs the publication of The Virginia Quarterly Review. A former
professional journalist, he has published five previous books on technology, law, and society, including The Googlization of Everything. He has also contributed to publications such as The Nation, Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, BookForum, The New York Times Book
Review, and The Baffler.

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