Social Media Society

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media
    • By: Charles Arthur
    • Narrated by: Charles Arthur
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • 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'....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Mark Coeckelbergh
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention....

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    • The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
    • By: Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi, Mikko Hypponen
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 392 ratings
    • In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick illustrates what is happening without your knowledge - and he teaches you "the art of invisibility"....

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    • Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and how the rest of us can keep up in the age of mass participation
    • By: Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
    • Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, hyperconnected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our age....

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    • How Randomness Rules Our Lives
    • By: Leonard Mlodinow
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....

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    • The Law and Society
    • By: Andrew Murray
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 41 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Information Technology Law is the ideal companion for a course of study on IT law and the ways in which it is evolving in response to rapid technological and social change....

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    • The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
    • By: Daniel S. Milo
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Why is the genome of a salamander 40 times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? Find out....

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    • MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
    • By: Dariusz Jemielniak, Aleksandra Przegalinska
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration....

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    • Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    • By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: Incerto
    • Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect....

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    • Identity After Authenticity
    • By: Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. This book argues that the profile marks an epochal shift in our concept of identity and demonstrates why that matters....

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    • Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
    • By: Erik Davis
    • Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In TechGnosis, Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication....

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    • Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
    • By: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse....

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    • How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health – and How We Must Adapt
    • By: Sinan Aral
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In this brilliant, smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialisation’ has profoundly changed us....

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    • (A Pelican Book)
    • By: Nicholas Mirzoeff
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the first book to define visual culture for the general listener, Mirzoeff draws on art history, theory and everyday experience to provide an engaging and accessible overview of how visual materials shape and define our lives....

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    • The Folly of Technological Solutionism
    • By: Evgeny Morozov
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In the very near future, smart “technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life....

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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
    • By: David Kirkpatrick
    • Narrated by: David Kirkpatrick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users....

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    • How Inclusion Shapes Design (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
    • By: Kat Holmes, John Maeda - foreword
    • Narrated by: Kat Holmes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion....

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