Charles Arthur

Social Warming (eBook, ePUB)

How Social Media Polarises Us All

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey 'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. Social warming has happened gradually as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline this vicious cycle of anger and outrage is real. And it can be corrected. Here's how.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786079985
• Artikelnr.: 61939706

Autorenporträt

Charles Arthur is a journalist, author and speaker, writing on science and technology for over thirty years. He was technology editor of the Guardian from 20052014, and afterwards carried out research into social division at Cambridge University. He is the author of two specialist books, Digital Wars and Cyber Wars.