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Social Warming

How Social Media Polarises Us All

Charles Arthur

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English
Oneworld Publications
31 August 2021
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, every time these platforms tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement', they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. After all, anger keeps you engaged.

It has been hard to address climate change precisely because it has been happening slowly and in plain sight. In the same way, we urgently need to address this social crisis before we reach an irreversible tipping point.

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Imprint:   Oneworld Publications
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 225mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 30mm
ISBN:   9781786079978
ISBN 10:   1786079976
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 is now carrying out research into social division at Cambridge University. He is the author of two specialist business books, Digital Wars and Cyber Wars.

Reviews for Social Warming: How Social Media Polarises Us All

'Social media was meant to bring us closer together. Instead, it tore us apart. Charles Arthur has written the definitive account of how arrogance and greed got us into this mess, and how we might get out of it. Witty, rigorous, and as urgent as a fire alarm.' -- Dorian Lynskey 'A guide to how the apps we use every day are hacking our politics, our society, and even who we are. It reads like science fiction, except he's describing our world - right now.' -- Ian Dunt 'A compelling account of how a handful of social media platforms came to dominate society and how to minimise the damage they cause, because We can't uninvent them .' * <i>Mirror</i> * 'The rapidity with which social media has come to dominate communications in this country - in less than two decades - has been breathtaking... Arthur helps bring the whole complex issue into greater focus here. He looks at the origins of social media, describing its early promise, and then follows the dangerous paths the phenomenon has been taking in recent years.' -- <i>Booklist</i>


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