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The twittering machine / Richard Seymour.

by Seymour, Richard (Journalist)

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302.30285 S521t

Online social networks -- Psychological aspects.

Internet addiction.

9781788739283 (hc)

250 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-250 ) and index.

"A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media. Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become."--Publisher.

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