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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?
The price of "The Twittering Machine (Hardcover Book)" at Up Up & Away! (Cincinnati East) is USD $26.95.
The publisher of "The Twittering Machine (Hardcover Book)" is Verso Books.
The genres of "The Twittering Machine (Hardcover Book)" are Political Science - Commentary & Opinion, Political Science - Political Process - Media & Internet, and Social Science - Sociology - Social Theory.
"The Twittering Machine (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Hardcover Books.
The writer of "The Twittering Machine (Hardcover Book)" is Richard Seymour.
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