TY - BOOK AU - Vaidhyanathan,Siva TI - Antisocial media : : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy SN - 9780190056544 (paperback) AV - HM 1206 V128a 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - New York, NY : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Facebook (Recurso electrónico) KW - Redes sociales KW - Aspectos políticos KW - Estados Unidos KW - Comunicación en política KW - Innovaciones tecnológicas KW - Adicción a internet KW - Adicción a las redes sociales N1 - Originally published: 2018; Introduction: the problem with Facebook is Facebook The pleasure machine The surveillance machine The attention machine The benevolence machine The protest machine The politics machine The disinformation machine The nonsense machine Conclusion N2 - 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 ER -