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Author
Max Fisher
Book Title
Chaos Machine : the inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Country/Region of Manufacture
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EAN
9780316703321
Format
Hardcover
Genre
Computers, Psychology, Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
ISBN
9780316703321
ISBN-10
031670332X
Item Height
1.5in
Item Length
9.5in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Width
6.4in
Language
English
Publication Name
The Chaos Machine
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Release Date
06/09/2022
Release Year
2022
Subtitle
The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our Wo
Title
The Chaos Machine
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Political Process / Media & Internet, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Social Psychology, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2022
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism From a New York Times investigative reporter, this "authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media" ( New York Times Book Review ) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement--and profits--at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is "an essential book for our times" (Ezra Klein). We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear. His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it's too late.

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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
031670332x
ISBN-13
9780316703321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057235480

Product Key Features

Book Title
Chaos Machine : the inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Author
Max Fisher
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Political Process / Media & Internet, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Social Psychology, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Computers, Psychology, Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
400 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Hm742.F53 2022
Reviews
"In this timely book, Max Fisher reveals how powerful social-media giants set all of humanity on an alternative course to the future. The Chaos Machine boldly exposes how a few technology companies chose profit over people, helped spread salacious misinformation, and ultimately ripped the fabric of society apart. I hope everyone will read this important investigation with an open mind, because we must choose a different path forward, and fast."-- Amy Webb, author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, "Max Fisher blends together deep reporting, riveting stories, and a global canvas in this gripping and definitive work on the damage wrought by social media. The Chaos Machine is essential reading if you want to understand a force that is reshaping the world and the very real consequences it is having on people everywhere."-- Ben Rhodes, author of the New York Times bestseller The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, "Fisher has drawn together a chilling record of the cultural and commercial imperatives behind violent events, and how the perversity of machines and of people, working in tandem, have upended life around the globe."-- Air Mail, "Social media isn't just changing our lives. It's changing the world, and even its creators and would-be overseers have only the foggiest ideas about how. In this meticulously reported, grippingly told account, Max Fisher chases the results across continents, and paints a disturbing picture of not just where we are, but where we're going. The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times. "-- Ezra Klein, author of the New York Times bestseller Why We're Polarized
Lccn
2022-941585
Dewey Decimal
302.23/1
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

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