The Twittering Machine - Couverture rigide

Seymour, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1788739280 ISBN 13 : 9781788739283

Editeur : Verso, 2020

Synopsis

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?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Seymour is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including Against Austerity and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics. His writing appears in the The New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Jacobin, Prospect, and other outlets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788739280
• ISBN 13: 9781788739283
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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