Content tagged with "social-media"
My first abandon of the year. I read over half of it, but this is a very topical, timely book that’s seven years old. In 2012, it was likely quite relevant. In 2019, it just didn’t age well.
Devastating analysis of how much we suck as humans, and how easily manipulated we are by social media. It’s a long-range survey of how governments are using social media as a weapon, or force-multiplier, for their own ends. Extensively researched. Seems like a long book, but it is literally 1/3…
Wonderfully complete history of Reddit, from the childhood lives of founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, through the life of Aaron Swartz. The book has short chapters, and is mainly episodic – each chapter covers some moment in the history of Reddit, and they’re all there: the rise of…
