Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media

By Charles Arthur

An impassioned exploration of the ways in which social media has manipulated us all 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'.

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Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Publish Date: 08/10/2021
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780861542291
ISBN-10: 0861542290
Language: English

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An impassioned exploration of the ways in which social media has manipulated us all 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. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline - this vicious cycle of anger and outrage - can be corrected. Here's how.

About the Author

Charles Arthur is a journalist, author and speaker, writing on science and technology for over thirty years. He was technology editor of the Guardian from 2005-2014, and afterwards carried out research into social division at Cambridge University.

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