The hype machine : how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health--and how we must adapt

Author(s)

• Aral, Sinan

Bibliographic Information

The hype machine : how social media disrupts our elections, our economy, and our health--and how we must adapt

Sinan Aral

Currency, 2021

• : pbk

Note

"Currency trade paperback edition"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The New social age
• The end of reality
• The hype machine
• Your brain on social media
• A network's gravity is proportional to its mass
• Personalized mass persuasion
• Hypersocialization
• Strategies for a hypersocialized world
• The attention economy and the tyranny of trends
• The wisdom and madness of crowds
• Social media's promise is also its peril
• Rescuing the new social age

• NCID: BC1591585X
• ISBN:
  • 9780593240403
• LCCN: 2020012039
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 390 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM741
  • DC23 : 303.48/33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social media -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Information society
  • LCSH : Social interaction
  • LCSH : Propaganda
  • LCSH : Misinformation