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Algorithms of Oppression
Run a Google search for “black girls”―what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type...
Discrimination, Search, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media
Don’t Be Evil
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1%...
Digital Transformation, Economics, Inequality, Privacy, Public Policy, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media
Net Smart
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century....
Media & Internet, Social Media
Network Propaganda
Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of...
Communication, Politics & Government, Social Media
Open Leadership
An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be "open" while maintaining control "Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic" are the current leadership mantras-but companies often...
Leadership, Social Media
Social Warming
Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women. YouTube never planned to radicalise young men. But with billions of users, these platforms need only...
Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media, Technology & Engineering
Speech Police
The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the material on it turned out to incite violence, spread untruth, and promote hate. Over...
Computer & Internet Law, Law, Science, Social Media
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your...
Cultural Anthropology, Social Media
The Art of Invisibility
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit...
Hacking, Mobile, Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance
The Chaos Machine
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...
Computers, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media
The Exponential Age
We are living in the first exponential age. High-tech innovations are created at dazzling speeds; technological forces we barely understand remake our homes and workplaces; centuries-old tenets of politics and...
Business & Economics, Politics & Government, Public Policy, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media
The Filter Bubble
In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict what you are most...
Computers, Media & Internet, Psychology, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media, Technology & Engineering
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today Many think of the internet as...
Philosophy, Privacy, Social Media
What Would Google Do?
A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do? In a book that's one part prophecy, one part thought experiment,...
Business & Economics, Social Aspects of Technology, Social Media
Zucked
One of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who...
Digital Transformation, Social Media