Social Warming

The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

Social Warming
Charles Arthur
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
28 Jul 2022 UK
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9780861543175
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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.
' Social media was meant to bring us closer together. Instead, it tore us apart. Charles Arthur has written the definitive account of how arrogance and greed got us into this mess, and how we might get out of it. Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm. ' -- Dorian Lynskey ' A guide to how the apps we use every day are hacking our politics, our society, and even who we are. It reads like science fiction, except he' s describing our world - right now. ' -- Ian Dunt
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 2005-2014, and afterwards carried out research into social division at Cambridge University. He is the author of two specialist books, Digital Wars and Cyber Wars.
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ISBN-13: 9780861543175
Published: 28 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 25mm
Pages: 352

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