ISBN:
9780197600825
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 314 Seiten)
Edition:
Updated edition
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Facebook (Electronic resource)
;
Social media Political aspects
Abstract:
If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energise 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 book, 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190056544.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190056544.001.0001
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