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- 9780525522263
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525522263
ISBN-13
9780525522263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038654449
Product Key Features
Book Title
Antisocial : Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political Process / Media & Internet, Media Studies, Web / Social Media, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Computers, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-030179
Reviews
" Antisocial is at once funny and scary, antic and illuminating. It's a must-read for anyone still struggling to understand the last election or hoping to make sense of the next one." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction "A riveting exploration of the causes and consequences of our current societal nervous breakdown. Antisocial is absolutely essential reading to understand This Moment., and it will stick in your brain long after you've devoured it." --Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes "Anyone who wants to know how Silicon Valley's dream turned into democracy's nightmare should read Antisocial, Andrew Marantz's fascinating firsthand exploration of the trolls and nihilists who have hijacked the internet. This book puts contemporary politics in an alarming new light." --Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money "We live in an era where current events are driven as much by scrolls of binary code as they are by matters in the physical world. With Antisocial Andrew Marantz has crafted a map of this digital landscape, charted how it came to be, and pointed to its implications for all of us. This is an important book whose relevance will only grow over time." -- Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and author of The Substance of Hope " Antisocial is a close-up portrait of the new species of online shock artists who have taken over the American conversation. It is the most detailed and concrete account of how our politics have been changed by social media. This book is essential reading." --Jaron Lanier, Interdisciplinary Scientist at Microsoft Research and author of You Are Not a Gadget "Marantz has produced an essential work of reporting--one that illuminates not only how our information landscape emerged but also how it has become so corrupted and dangerous. If you want to comprehend the world in which we live, Antisocial is a book you must read." --David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon "Nowhere is the propagation of racist ideas more apparent today than on the social media platforms Silicon Valley created--but failed to govern. In Antisocial , Andrew Marantz crafted a complex, unsettling portrait of how blind techno-utopianism can lead to disaster. This is necessary reading if we intend to keep the next generation of social networks from becoming yet another American source of oppression." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "This is a book about how the unthinkable becomes thinkable: how, in the Age of Trump, the alt-right, and outright fascists, have come to claim a central place in American discourse. This book scared the hell out of me, but every American could benefit from reading it. Andrew Marantz has written a chilling, deeply sourced, rivetingly told account of how a few fringe figures saw the potential of the internet as a vehicle for mass disinformation, and became prophets of the new fascism. Antisocial is political reporting at its finest." --Suketu Mehta, author of This Land Is Our Land, "A searching study of the right-wing gate-crashers who have overwhelmed social media in the Trump era. . . . Marantz''s travels into the camps of those right-wingers prove [Richard] Rorty correct, and the author clearly documents their use of social media to advance right-wing causes. . . . Invaluable political reportage in a time of crisis." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Marantz, a staff writer at the New Yorker , makes a timely and excellent debut. . . . Marantz doesn''t shy away from asking pointed questions or noting his subjects'' inconsistencies. This insightful and well-crafted book is a must-read account of how quickly the ideas of what''s acceptable public discourse can shift." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " Antisocial is at once funny and scary, antic and illuminating. It''s a must-read for anyone still struggling to understand the last election or hoping to make sense of the next one." --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction "Anyone who wants to know how Silicon Valley''s dream turned into democracy''s nightmare should read Antisocial, Andrew Marantz''s fascinating firsthand exploration of the trolls and nihilists who have hijacked the internet. This book puts contemporary politics in an alarming new light." --Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money "A riveting exploration of the causes and consequences of our current societal nervous breakdown. Antisocial is absolutely essential reading to understand this moment, and it will stick in your brain long after you''ve devoured it." --Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a Nation and host of All In with Chris Hayes "We live in an era when current events are driven as much by scrolls of binary code as they are by matters in the physical world. With Antisocial , Andrew Marantz has crafted a map of this digital landscape, charted how it came to be, and pointed to its implications for all of us. This is an important book whose relevance will only grow over time." -- Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and author of The Substance of Hope " Antisocial is a close-up portrait of the new species of online shock artists who have taken over the American conversation. It is the most detailed and concrete account of how our politics have been changed by social media. This book is essential reading." --Jaron Lanier, interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft Research and author of You Are Not a Gadget "Marantz has produced an essential work of reporting--one that illuminates not only how our information landscape emerged, but also how it has become so corrupted and dangerous. If you want to comprehend the world in which we live, Antisocial is a book you must read." --David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon "Nowhere is the propagation of racist ideas more apparent today than on the social media platforms Silicon Valley created--but failed to govern. In Antisocial , Andrew Marantz crafted a complex, unsettling portrait of how blind techno-utopianism can lead to disaster. This is necessary reading if we intend to keep the next generation of social networks from becoming yet another American source of oppression." --Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist "This is a book about how the unthinkable becomes thinkable: how, in the Age of Trump, the alt-right, and outright fascists, have come to claim a central place in American discourse. This book scared the hell out of me, but every American could benefit from reading it. Andrew Marantz has written a chilling, deeply sourced, rivetingly told account of how a few fringe figures saw the potential of the internet as a vehicle for mass disinformation, and became prophets of the new fascism. Antisocial is political reporting at its finest." --Suketu Mehta, author of This Land Is Our Land
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
303.48402854678
Synopsis
"Trenchant and intelligent." -- The New York Times A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of na vete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers"--the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly--from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room--and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding , Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape--the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread--from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?, Trenchant and intelligent. -- The New York Times As seen/heard on NPR, New Yorker Radio Hour, The New York Book Review Podcast, PBS Newshour, CNBC, and more. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of na vete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls the gate crashers--the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly--from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room--and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding , Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape--the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread--from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?, "Trenchant and intelligent." -- The New York Times As seen/heard on NPR, New Yorker Radio Hour, The New York Book Review Podcast, PBS Newshour, CNBC, and more. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers"--the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly--from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room--and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding , Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape--the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread--from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?
LC Classification Number
HN90.R3M343 2019
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