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003    OCoLC 
008    180327s2018    xxu      b    001 0 eng   
020    9780190841164|q(hardcover) 
020    0190841168|q(hardcover) 
024 8  40028301816 
041    eng 
082 04 302.23/1|223 
092 0  302.231|bengelska 
100 1  Vaidhyanathan, Siva 
245 10 Antisocial media :|bhow Facebook disconnects us and 
       undermines democracy /|cSiva Vaidhyanathan 
246 14 Anti-social media 
264  1 New York, NY, United States of America :|bOxford 
       University Press,|c[2018] 
300    276 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  Introduction: the problem with Facebook is Facebook -- The
       pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The 
       attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The 
       protest machine -- The politics machine -- The 
       disinformation machine -- Conclusion: the nonsense machine
520    "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 
       Antisocial Media, 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. Facebook grew out of an 
       ideological commitment to data-driven decision making and 
       logical thinking. Its culture is explicitly tolerant of 
       difference and dissent. Both its market orientation and 
       its labor force are global. It preaches the power of 
       connectivity to change lives for the better. Indeed, no 
       company better represents the dream of a fully connected 
       planet "sharing" words, ideas, and images, and no company 
       has better leveraged those ideas into wealth and 
       influence. Yet no company has contributed more to the 
       global collapse of basic tenets of deliberation and 
       democracy. Both authoritative and trenchant, Antisocial 
       Media shows how Facebook's mission went so wrong." -- 
       Publisher's description 
650  0 Social media|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States 
650  0 Communication in politics|xTechnological innovations
       |zUnited States 
650  0 Internet addiction|zUnited States 
650  7 Internet|xsociala aspekter|2sao 
907 00 180921