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September 27, 2022

Like, Comment, Subscribe by Mark Bergen

September 27, 2022/ Steve Donoghue
Like, Comment, Subscribe by Mark Bergen

An authoritative history of YouTube.

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September 27, 2022/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Like Comment Subscribe, YouTube, Mark Bergen, social media, Google, Steve Donoghue
August 14, 2021

Dark Persuasion by Joel Dimsdale

August 14, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
Dark Persuasion by Joel Dimsdale

A new book looks at the modern history of mass delusions.

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August 14, 2021/ Steve Donoghue/
Society & Culture, Health & Psychology
Dark Persuasion, Joel Dimsdale, brainwashing, social history, Steve Donoghue, psychology, social media
March 28, 2021

Breaking the Social Media Prism by Chris Bail

March 28, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
Breaking the Social Media Prism by Chris Bail

A new book looks at ways the pernicious effects of social media can be countered.

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March 28, 2021/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Breaking the Social Media Prism, Chris Bail, social media, Twitter, Facebook, Steve Donoghue
January 20, 2020

The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley

January 20, 2020/ Peggy Kurkowski
The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley

As this book makes frighteningly clear, “fake news” and “alternative facts” are just the barest beginning of coming problem with telling the difference between truth and lies …

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January 20, 2020/ Peggy Kurkowski/
Science/Technology
Samuel Wooley, technology, fake news, social media, Peggy Kurkowski
May 06, 2019

Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt

May 06, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt

Are iPhones, iPads, GPS, and the Internet exacerbating negatives and simultaneously eroding the positives?

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May 06, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt, Harvard University Press, technology, social media, neuroscience
April 03, 2019

Left To Their Own Devices by Julie M. Albright

April 03, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Left To Their Own Devices by Julie M. Albright

Young digital natives deserve better than this hyperventilating wad of pseudoscience.

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April 03, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Julie M. Albright, Prometheus Books, social media, digital culture, technology
March 14, 2019

How Attention Works by Stefan Van Der Stigchel

March 14, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
How Attention Works by Stefan Van Der Stigchel

This study covers an enormous amount of research in only a little more than 100 pages.

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March 14, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Nonfiction Translations, Health & Psychology
Stefan Van Der Stigchel, Danny Guinan, The MIT Press, social media, the internet, psychology, Steve Donoghue, translations
February 18, 2019

Zucked by Roger McNamee

February 18, 2019/ Steve Donoghue
Zucked by Roger McNamee

This book traces the author’s personal history and the well-known origin story of Facebook.

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February 18, 2019/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Roger McNamee, Facebook, social media, democracy, Jeff Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Penguin Random House, Steve Donoghue
October 11, 2018

Escaping the Rabbit Hole by Mick West

October 11, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Escaping the Rabbit Hole by Mick West

How to deal with people who believe bunk, falsehoods, mistakes, and outright lies

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October 11, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Escaping the Rabbit Hole, Mick West, conspiracies, the internet, social media, Flat Earthers, Skyhorse Publishing, Steve Donoghue
October 10, 2018

LikeWar by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

October 10, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
LikeWar by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

Technology, politics, and war have merged into a new battlefield where strategies are played out on smartphones.

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October 10, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & Economics, Science/Technology, Society & Culture
P.W. Singer, Emerson T. Booking, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, social media, the internet, infowars, Steve Donoghue
September 12, 2018

Twitterbots by Tony Veale & Mike Cook

September 12, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Twitterbots by Tony Veale & Mike Cook

A fascinating and fun account of the lives of autonomous software systems in the social media universe.

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September 12, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Tony Veale, Mike Cook, The MIT Press, Twitter, social media, autonomous software systems, Steve Donoghue
June 16, 2018

Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts

June 16, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts

The author is uniquely qualified to show how misinformation campaigns, social media trolling, and electronic espionage have become tools of modern warfare.

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June 16, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Politics & Economics, Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Messing with the Enemy, Clint Watts, Harper Collins, social media, politics, American culture, Russia, fake news, journalism, Donald Trump, Steve Donoghue
June 07, 2018

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

June 07, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

One of the architects the digital world in the 1980s takes aim at social media.

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June 07, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Science/Technology, Society & Culture
Jaron Lanier, Henry Holt, social media, society, technology, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Steve Donoghue
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