The hype machine: how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health - and how we must adapt

"Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technologi...

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1. Verfasser: Aral, Sinan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Currency 2021
Ausgabe:Paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:"Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions with each other through social media. It is paramount, MIT social media expert Sinan Aral says, that we recognize the outsized impact social media has on our culture, our democracy, and our lives in order to steer today's social technology toward good, while avoiding the ways it can pull us apart."--
Beschreibung:xvi, 390 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:9780593240403
0593240405