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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "nothing short of brilliant" (People) Mrs. Everything returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship and forgiveness set during a disastrous wedding on picturesque Cape Cod. Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word...
4) Followers
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair).
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out...
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ending her relationship with a man who she discovers is a popular anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, a woman activist travels from Washington, DC, to Berlin, where she struggles with increasingly manipulative dynamics in her online, business, and social circles.
7) Follow me
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Are You Sleeping-soon to be an Apple TV series-comes a cautionary tale of oversharing in the social media age for fans of Jessica Knoll and Caroline Kepnes's You"--
Author
Series
Carl saga volume 02
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
"The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl's path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 146 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lays out ten arguments for why readers would be better off if they deleted all their social media accounts, citing social media's tendency to bring out the worst in people, degrade politics, distort truth, foster disconnection, and sap free will.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You fall down. You get hurt. You get up again. You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and "an unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously...
13) Social media
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"More than 2.2 billion people worldwide are active on social media--a full 30 percent of the global population. In this book readers will learn how Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and other social media, have become an integral part of people's lives, affecting their attitudes, relationships, mental health--and personal safety"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
16) On the rocks
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funny, bittersweet, yet heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love in the Facebook age--not to mention the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of life as a modern young single woman--from Erin Duffy, the author of the acclaimed Bond GirlEver since she was a little girl, Abby Wilkes dreamed of her wedding, the day when she'd wear a pretty white dress and look like a princess.But that was before her life fell apart for the...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A successful media influencer's morally questionable relationship with the truth exposes deep psychological cracks in her marriage at the same time her family is targeted by a violently obsessed fan.
18) American hangman
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A live broadcast on social media of a kidnapping turns into a trial of a judge who is accused of botching some criminal cases. The audience gets to play judge, jury, and executioner.
19) Outrage machine: how tech is amplifying discontent, disrupts democracy, and what we can do about it
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
577 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every"--