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1) The Circle
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair).
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out...
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out...
Author
Language
English
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2021 Dublin Literary Award Finalist
2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist for Transgender Fiction
2020 Toronto Book Awards Finalist
"The Subtweet is affecting, unnerving, empowering, and often truly LOL." — Foreword Reviews, starred review
"A beautifully crafted novel about race, music, and social media." — Booklist
Includes an exclusive free soundtrack
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
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"A eye-opening look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online--and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media. In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A daredevil photographer, an aspiring swimsuit model, and a midwest girl next door are all looking for the same things from their Instagram accounts a little love, acceptance and, of course, fame and they'll do just about anything to get it. With an observational eye Social Animals peeks into the digital and real worlds of today's image-focused teenager, where followers, likes and comments mark success and self worth.
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Social media can be used for good or for evil. In 2018, organizers of the March for Our Lives used social media to bring roughly 500,000 people to Washington, DC, to peacefully protest against gun violence-a powerful example of how social media can be used for good. But the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 showed just as powerfully how social media can also be used for evil. Behavioral addiction is a mental health condition in which a person...
9) On the rocks
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Language
English
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"A fresh, funny, and heart-warming novel about the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of being a young single woman in the Facebook Age, from the author of Bond Girl"--
"A funny, bittersweet, yet heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love in the Facebook age--not to mention the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of life as a modern young single woman--from Erin Duffy, the author of the acclaimed Bond GirlEver since she...
11) Unfriended
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Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table, she finds herself caught in a web of lies and misunderstandings, made unescapable by the hyperconnected social media world"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
"Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away.
Through the weaponization...
Through the weaponization...
Author
Language
English
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Description
An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six...
When Imogen returns to work at Glossy after six...
Author
Language
English
Description
For readers of Leila Slimani's The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star about a group of young colleagues working as social media content monitors-reviewers of violent or illegal videos for an unnamed megacorporation-who convince themselves they're in control... until the violence strikes closer to home.
Kayleigh needs money. That's why she takes a job as a content moderator for...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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With incredible access to the mastermind behind the mask, a cryptic and playful exploration of the story behind the viral sensation, as well as an inside look at myth-building and the unpredictable spread of imagination in the Internet age.
20) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Twentieth Century Studios and Locksmith Animation's film is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device, which is supposed to be his 'Best Friend out of the Box.' Ron's hilarious malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.
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