Social Warming The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

'Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm' Dorian Lynskey


'Cooly prosecutorial' Guardian


Nobody meant for this to happen.


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 tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. 


Social warming has happened gradually - as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline - this vicious cycle of anger and outrage - is real. And it can be corrected. Here's how.

Info autore

Charles Arthur is a journalist, author and speaker, writing on science and technology for over thirty years. He was technology editor of the Guardian from 2005–2014, and afterwards carried out research into social division at Cambridge University. He is the author of two specialist books, Digital Wars and Cyber Wars. 

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Arthur Charles, Charles Arthur
• Editore: Oneworld
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.08.2021
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Comunicazione dati, reti; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Mediologia
• EAN: 9780861542291
• ISBN: 978-0-86154-229-1
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Categorie: Instagram, Social Media, YouTube, Data Mining, Media Studies, Facebook, Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge Analytica, Twitter, Mental Health, TikTok, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Algorithm, Addiction, Internet: general works, Impact of science & technology on society, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Impact of science and technology on society, Conspiracy Theories, COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Caroline Flack, Surveillance Capitalism, social dilemna