Antisocial : online extremists, techno-utopians, and the hijacking of the American conversation
Marantz, Andrew2019
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For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers" -- the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly -- from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room -- and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape -- the landscape in which we all now live.
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Author:
Marantz, Andrew, author
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[New York] : Viking Press, [2019]©2019.
Collation:
380 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-380)
Contents:
pt. One Deplora Ball -- pt. Two A Human Superpower -- pt. Three Too Big to Ignore -- pt. Four The Swamp -- pt. Five The American Berserk -- pt. Six A Night for Freedom.
ISBN:
9780525522263 (hardcover)9780525522270 (ebook)
Dewey class:
303.484
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English
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BRN:
518416