Vaidhyanathan, Siva,   1966-  <br/><br/>
Antisocial media :   how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy / 
Siva Vaidhyanathan  
 - First Oxford University paperback, 2021. 
 - New York, NY :   Oxford University Press,   2021 
 - xi, 314 pages ;   24 cm  
<br/><br/> Originally published: 2018. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: the problem with Facebook is Facebook<br/>The pleasure machine<br/>The surveillance machine<br/>The attention machine<br/>The benevolence machine<br/>The protest machine<br/>The politics machine<br/>The disinformation machine<br/>The nonsense machine<br/>Conclusion 
<br/><br/> If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energise hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In this book, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190056544 (paperback) 0190056541 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Facebook (Recurso electrónico)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Redes sociales --Aspectos políticos--Estados Unidos <br/>Comunicación en política--Innovaciones tecnológicas --Estados Unidos <br/>Adicción a internet--Estados Unidos <br/>Adicción a las redes sociales 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM 1206  / V128a 2021