The Hype Machine
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The Hype Machine
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Author : Sinan Aral
language : en
Publisher: Currency
Release Date : 2020-09-15
The Hype Machine written by Sinan Aral and has been published by Currency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
A landmark insider’s tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond “The book might be described as prophetic. . . . At least two of Aral’s three predictions have come to fruition.”—New York NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED • LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD Social media connected the world—and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. It is paramount, MIT professor Sinan Aral says, that we recognize the outsize effect social media has on us—on our politics, our economy, and even our personal health—in order to steer today’s social technology toward its great promise while avoiding the ways it can pull us apart. Drawing on decades of his own research and business experience, Aral goes under the hood of the most powerful social networks to tackle the critical question of just how much social media actually shapes our choices, for better or worse. He shows how the tech behind social media offers the same set of behavior influencing levers to everyone who hopes to change the way we think and act—from Russian hackers to brand marketers—which is why its consequences affect everything from elections to business, dating to health. Along the way, he covers a wide array of topics, including how network effects fuel Twitter’s and Facebook’s massive growth, the neuroscience of how social media affects our brains, the real consequences of fake news, the power of social ratings, and the impact of social media on our kids. In mapping out strategies for being more thoughtful consumers of social media, The Hype Machine offers the definitive guide to understanding and harnessing for good the technology that has redefined our world overnight.
The Hype Machine How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections Our Economy And Our Health And How We Must Adapt
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Author : Sinan Aral
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-09-17
The Hype Machine How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections Our Economy And Our Health And How We Must Adapt written by Sinan Aral and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Computers categories.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization’ has profoundly changed us.
The Charisma Machine
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Author : Morgan G. Ames
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
The Charisma Machine written by Morgan G. Ames and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why—despite its failures—the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Announced in 2005 by MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child promised to transform the lives of children across the Global South with a small, sturdy, and cheap laptop computer, powered by a hand crank. In reality, the project fell short in many ways—starting with the hand crank, which never materialized. Yet the project remained charismatic to many who were captivated by its claims of access to educational opportunities previously out of reach. Behind its promises, OLPC, like many technology projects that make similarly grand claims, had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning. Drawing on fifty years of history and a seven-month study of a model OLPC project in Paraguay, Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for “technically precocious boys”—idealized younger versions of the developers themselves—rather than the children who were actually using them. The Charisma Machine offers a cautionary tale about the allure of technology hype and the problems that result when utopian dreams drive technology development.
The Hype Machine
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Author : Sinan Aral
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-17
The Hype Machine written by Sinan Aral and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with categories.
Summary Of Sinan Aral S The Hype Machine
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-03-31T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Sinan Aral S The Hype Machine written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31T22:59:00Z with Business & Economics categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Hype Machine is a machine that connects us in a worldwide communication network, exchanging trillions of messages a day. It was designed to stimulate our neurological impulses and draw us in, but it also persuades us to change how we shop, vote, and exercise. #2 The debate about what happened in Crimea continues today. Russia denies it was an annexation, while many consider it a hostile encroachment by a foreign power. In just ten days, the region was flipped from one sovereignty to another with hardly any noise. #3 The information operation in Crimea was extremely sophisticated, and social media was essential in framing the reality of what happened there. If this was an annexation, NATO would have to respond. But if this was an accession, overwhelmingly supported by the Crimean people, intervention would be harder to justify. #4 I had to take a detour to explain how I understand the events that transpired in Ukraine. In 2016, I was working on a research project with my colleagues Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the spread of fake news online. We found that false news diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth.
Beasts Of Burden Wise Dogs And Eldritch Men
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Author : Evan Dorkin
language : en
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Beasts Of Burden Wise Dogs And Eldritch Men written by Evan Dorkin and has been published by Dark Horse Comics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
This eight-time Eisner Award-winning comic book series blending fantasy and humor features the adventures of paranormal pets investigating the horrors of Burden Hill. A heroic pack of canines known as the Wise Dogs sets off on a mission to clean up a Pennsylvania corridor plagued by seemingly unrelated occult disturbances that include a fire salamander and a horde of mutant lurkers. A link is found among the various disturbances, leading our heroes to a mountain village inhabited by a survivalist witch-cult who have discovered the existence of a "Blood Lure" attracting occult forces, creatures, and many more terrors to Burden Hill! Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese) and Ben Dewey (The Autumnlands) come together to share the lives of some unlikely heroes. This volume collects the comic-book series Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men issues #1-4, published by Dark Horse Comics.
Subprime Attention Crisis
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Author : Tim Hwang
language : en
Publisher: FSG Originals
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Subprime Attention Crisis written by Tim Hwang and has been published by FSG Originals this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Social Science categories.
From FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising—the beating heart of the internet—is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008. From the unreliability of advertising numbers and the unregulated automation of advertising bidding wars, to the simple fact that online ads mostly fail to work, Hwang demonstrates that while consumers’ attention has never been more prized, the true value of that attention itself—much like subprime mortgages—is wildly misrepresented. And if online advertising goes belly-up, the internet—and its free services—will suddenly be accessible only to those who can afford it. Deeply researched, convincing, and alarming, Subprime Attention Crisis will change the way you look at the internet, and its precarious future. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.
T Minus Ai
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Author : Michael Kanaan
language : en
Publisher: BenBella Books
Release Date : 2020-08-25
T Minus Ai written by Michael Kanaan and has been published by BenBella Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Science categories.
Late in 2017, the global significance of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) changed forever. China put the world on alert when it released a plan to dominate all aspects of AI across the planet. Only weeks later, Vladimir Putin raised a Russian red flag in response by declaring AI the future for all humankind, and proclaiming that, "Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." The race was on. Consistent with their unique national agendas, countries throughout the world began plotting their paths and hurrying their pace. Now, not long after, the race has become a sprint. Despite everything at stake, to most of us AI remains shrouded by a cloud of mystery and misunderstanding. Hidden behind complicated and technical jargon and confused by fantastical depictions of science fiction, the modern realities of AI and its profound implications are hard to decipher, but crucial to recognize. In T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power, author Michael Kanaan explains AI from a human-oriented perspective we can all finally understand. A recognized national expert and the U.S. Air Force's first Chairperson for Artificial Intelligence, Kanaan weaves a compelling new view on our history of innovation and technology to masterfully explain what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning. Kanaan also dives into the global implications of AI by illuminating the cultural and national vulnerabilities already exposed and the pressing issues now squarely on the table. AI has already become China's all-purpose tool to impose its authoritarian influence around the world. Russia, playing catch up, is weaponizing AI through its military systems and now infamous, aggressive efforts to disrupt democracy by whatever disinformation means possible. America and like-minded nations are awakening to these new realities—and the paths they're electing to follow echo loudly the political foundations and, in most cases, the moral imperatives upon which they were formed. As we march toward a future far different than ever imagined, T-Minus AI is fascinating and crucially well-timed. It leaves the fiction behind, paints the alarming implications of AI for what they actually are, and calls for unified action to protect fundamental human rights and dignities for all.
Never Be Alone Again
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Author : Lina Abascal
language : en
Publisher: Two Palms Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-23
Never Be Alone Again written by Lina Abascal and has been published by Two Palms Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with categories.
NEVER BE ALONE AGAIN: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor is the first book dedicated to the music and Internet culture in the early 2000s known as bloghouse. With a foreword by DJ/producer A-Trak the book includes over 50 original interviews with musicians, bloggers, music industry professionals, and party people from around the world including Steve Aoki, The Bloody Beetroots, Girl Talk, The Cobra Snake, Chromeo, Flosstradamus, The Cool Kids, MySpace Music, MSTRKRFT, and Simian Mobile Disco. NEVER BE ALONE AGAIN chronicles the rise of the DJ-slash-It Girl, roaming party photography, illegal Mp3 file sharing, canonical scene reports of bloghouse capitals Los Angeles and Paris, the overlooked impact of suburban Latino communities on nightlife, Kanye West's contribution to the movement, and the slow death of the blog itself.
Falling
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Author : T. J. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Falling written by T. J. Newman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Fiction categories.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Terrifying…buckle up for a chilling summer read.” —People (Best Books of the Week) “The perfect thriller! A must-read.” —Gillian Flynn “Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet.” —Don Winslow You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.