Rate This Book: How Star Ratings Took Over the World: Independent Book of the Month - Couverture rigide

Wilson, Benji

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ISBN 10 : 1917923651 ISBN 13 : 9781917923651

Editeur : New Modern Arcade, 2026

Synopsis

An Independent Book of the Month

‘Five Stars’ Ian Hislop

'A very interesting book' Marina Hyde, The Rest is Entertainment

'A vivid and at times unnerving portrait of how we live' The Times

‘A fun and fascinating look at one of those things we all do’ Jonathan Ross

‘The history of modern life we didn’t know we wanted’ Giles Coren

‘Breezy and enjoyable’ Independent

‘(A) romp through our consumer landscape. Fascinating’ Mail on Sunday

The story of how – and why – the world has come to rely on star ratings for almost everything.

The world has come to rely on star ratings for almost everything. From Trustpilot to Google Reviews, eBay to Etsy, from doctors to teachers to politicians to toilets to books and culture, every facet of modern life has been distilled down to an online measure from one to five stars.

In Rate This Book journalist and critic Benji Wilson – who both rates and gets rated as part of his job – looks at how star ratings have become as much a part of modern discourse as language itself. We rate everything, we get rated and a dropped star here or there can make or break products and people. The importance of a five-star rating has seen the system gamed so that, ironically, an emblem of trust can no longer be trusted. Reviews are now used as both bait and blackmail.

But how did we get here? How has the pandemic and a corresponding lack of human connection increased our reliance on a number between one and five for our understanding of the world? And what has this reliance on something so reductive done to our ability to assess things for ourselves?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Benji Wilson is a TV critic for The Telegraph. He gives star ratings himself to television programmes (and is in turn rated on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic). He reviews books and has written a column on media and tech in Private Eye for more than a decade. As well as contributing features and interviews for The Sunday Times Culture magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald and USA Today, he is a regular TV critic on BBC Radio and a host for BAFTA and the BFI. His Uber rating is currently 4.8.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Modern Arcade
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1917923651
• ISBN 13: 9781917923651
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible