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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. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such “solutionism” affect our society, once deeply political, moral, and irresolvable dilemmas are recast as uncontroversial and easily manageable matters of technological efficiency?

An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today's social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests - how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change.

More than one-fifth of children want to become influencers, and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet's attention? What if you could turn the adoration of your social media followers into a lucrative livelihood? But as Symeon Brown explores in this searing exposé, the reality is much murkier. From IRL streamers in LA to Brazilian butt lifts, from sex workers on OnlyFans to fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes, these are the incredible stories that lurk behind the filtered selfies and gleaming smiles.

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'. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships. Social warming has happened gradually - as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence.

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, Boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions.

Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on mainstream social media platforms: enforcing internal policies, training artificial intelligence systems, and actively screening and removing offensive material. Roberts, an award-winning social media scholar, offers the first extensive ethnographic study of the commercial content moderation industry.

We are living in a world in which cows send texts to farmers when they're in heat, where the most valuable real estate in New York City houses computers, not people, and some of humanity's greatest works are created by crowds, not individuals. We are in the midst of a networking revolution - set to transform the way we access the world's information and the way we connect with one another. Studying biological systems is perhaps the best way to understand such networks, and nature has a lesson for us if we care to listen: Bigger is rarely better in the long run.

Instagram se ha convertido en un medio imprescindible para dar visibilidad a pequeños negocios y empresas en todos los sectores y también para los profesionales que ofrecen sus servicios. Pero, ¿por qué a unos les funciona y a otros no? ¿Por qué algunas cuentas tienen más seguidores que otras?¿Cómo puede alguien convertirse en influencer?

La palabra podcast es una versión de la palabra iPod y la palabra broadcast. En el año 2004, los oyentes de radio en línea, buscamos una manera más conveniente de escuchar nuestros programas favoritos. En aquel momento, la única opción que teníamos era usar reproductores de música personales como ipods, en lo cuales podíamos almacenar el contenido de audio. Y así fue como nació el podcast. Hoy en día el auge de los smartphones ha facilitado a los usuarios el acceso a este formato de contenido, pero las bases del medio permanecen igual.

 #miyodigital es el primer libro sobre marca personal en el mundo digital planteado en forma de manual práctico, para que puedas ver las consecuencias de las buenas y malas decisiones sobre tu presencia en internet y en las redes sociales. 

Das Politikbuch für die Generation Smartphone. Bijan Kaffenberger ist 29, seit vielen Jahren politisch aktiv - und er hat Tourette. Seine körperlichen Tics hielten ihn aber nicht davon ab, seinen Weg zu gehen. Bijan ist entschlossen, die Welt zu verbessern. Aber irgendwie scheint er in seiner Generation mit dieser Einstellung ein Sonderling zu sein: Seine Altersgenossen gehen selten zur Wahl und interessieren sich zu wenig für Politik. Woran liegt das?

È la prima volta che i cambiamenti della società sfuggono completamente al controllo della politica. L'innovazione si sviluppa lontano dai Parlamenti, i nuovi protagonisti sono troppo potenti e globali per essere affrontati da piccoli Stati. Uber liberalizza il trasporto pubblico, Spotify regala musica invece di venderla, AirBnB vanifica i tentativi degli albergatori di fare cartello, Facebook e Google iniziano a comportarsi come Stati del web, gli utenti sono i loro cittadini. Oggi gli utili si fanno conquistando miliardi di consumatori a cui migliorare la vita.

In "La società della performance", Maura Gancitano e Andrea Colamedici proseguono la linea tracciata da Guy Debord con "La società dello spettacolo" e da Byung-Chul Han con "Psicopolitica", rivelando come la condizione dell'uomo contemporaneo sia strutturata per sostituire al mondo l'imitazione del mondo, all'espressione di sé l'esibizione di sé, alla narrazione lo storytelling, alla ricerca del senso della vita la ricerca di un livello sempre maggiore di benessere e visibilità.

C'è chi li ama alla follia e ne fa un uso smodato. Chi li detesta e pensa siano la causa di tutti i mali della società. Chi non ammetterà mai di esserne dipendente, chi ci bazzica ma non si espone, chi ci si diverte senza subirli. Che li si ami o si odi, è passato il tempo in cui si credeva che i social media fossero una moda passeggera: quindici anni fa, quando Facebook muoveva i primi passi, e i vari Snapchat, Instagram, Musically erano ancora da venire, senza saperlo stavamo assistendo a una svolta irreversibile nel nostro modo di comunicare.

Eine Geschichte von der Revolution unseres Gesundheitssystems, intelligenten Maschinen in der Industrie und Algorithmen, die unser Liebesleben bestimmen: "Herzlich Willkommen im Daten­gefängnis" bietet eine umfassende Übersicht rund um das Thema Big Data. Es beleuchtet anschaulich die Zukunft, in der wir schon heute leben, und entführt den Leser in die spannende Welt der Daten, die uns mehr und mehr umgibt.

Technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research - which includes conversations. Marwick analyzes status-building techniques - such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming - to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class, and gender.

In this practical guide to successful grantseeking, Alan Silver draws on 30 years of experience to help listeners formulate strategies for winning grants for individuals, nonprofits, and agencies. Concisely written and easy to follow, How to Win Grants demonstrates a three-stage grant development model distilled into 101 actionable strategies, arranged in order of execution and supplemented by helpful checklists

With Share This! both regular folks of a progressive bent and committed activists can learn how to go beyond swapping movie reviews and vacation photos (not that there's anything wrong with that). At the moment, the same kinds of people who dominate the dialog off-line are dominating it online, and things will never change if that doesn't change. Progressives need to get on social networks and share their stories, join conversations, connect with others - and not just others exactly like themselves.

Most business books on social media have focused exclusively on using it as a marketing tool. Many employers see it as simply a workplace distraction. But social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned best from one anothersocial media enables this to happen unrestricted by physical location and in all kinds of extraordinarily creative ways.

Facebook's founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connect with friends...and the rest is history. But for the people who actually molded this great idea into a game-changing $300 billion company, the experience was far more tumultuous and uncertain than we might expect. Mike Hoefflinger was one of those Facebook insiders.