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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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Main Author: Aral, Sinan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Currency, [2020]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Social media > Moral and ethical aspects.
Information society.
Social interaction.
Propaganda.
Common fallacies.
Table of Contents:
  • The New Social Age
  • The End of Reality
  • The Hype Machine
  • Your Brain on Social Media
  • A Network's Gravity is Proportional to Its Mass
  • Personalized Mass Persuasion
  • Hypersocialization
  • Strategies for a Hypersocialized World
  • The Attention Economy and the Tyranny of Trends
  • The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds
  • Social Media's Promise Is Also Its Peril
  • Building a Better Hype Machine.

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