Antisocial : how online extremists broke America
Marantz, Andrew2019
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This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became 'fake news', how fringe ideas spread, and how a candidate many dismissed as a joke was propelled to the presidency by the dark side of the internet. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded with alt-right propagandists, who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. He also spent time with the social-media entrepreneurs who made this possible, through their naive and reckless ambition, by disrupting all of the traditional information systems. Join Marantz as some of the biggest brains in Silicon Valley teach him how to make content go viral; as he hangs out with the conspiracists, white supremacists and nihilist trolls using these ideas to make their memes, blogs and podcasts incredibly successful; and as he meets some of the people led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization. Antisocial is about how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then becomes reality. By telling the story of the people who hijacked the American conversation, Antisocial will help you understand the world they have created, in which we all now live.
Main title:
Antisocial : how online extremists broke America / Andrew Marantz.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2019.
Collation:
380 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published 2019 by Viking, New York.Includes glossary.Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
ONE Deplora Ball -- ch. One This Is America -- ch. Two Pride -- ch. Three The Contrarian Question -- ch. Four To Change How We Talk Is to Change Who We Are -- Interlude: Movable Type -- pt. TWO A Human Superpower -- ch. Five The Gleaming Vehicle -- ch. Six Viral Guy -- ch. Seven Basically My Nightmare -- ch. Eight Eating the World -- ch. Nine Brainwreck Politics -- ch. Ten The Sailer Strategy -- ch. Eleven The Invisible Primary -- pt. THREE Too Big to Ignore -- ch. Twelve Beyond Good and Evil -- ch. Thirteen A Filter for Quality -- ch. Fourteen Attention Is Influence -- ch. Fifteen Reductio -- ch. Sixteen The Media Matrix -- ch. Seventeen Fitness and Unfitness -- ch. Eighteen The Transplant -- ch. Nineteen Poise Is a Club -- ch. Twenty "Meta Post Script" -- Interlude: Trust Nothing -- pt. FOUR The Swamp -- ch. Twenty-One The News of the Future -- ch. Twenty-Two The Narrative of Public Life -- ch. Twenty-Three Very Professional and Very Good -- ch. Twenty-Four Success and Empire -- ch. Twenty-Five The Bright Day That Brings Forth the Adder -- Interlude: The Past is Absolute -- pt. FIVE The American Berserk -- ch. Twenty-Six The Emptiness -- THE AMERICAN BERSERK II -- ch. Twenty-Seven The Mountain -- pt. SIX A Night for Freedom -- ch. Twenty-Eight Common Sense.
ISBN:
97815098824969780525522287
Dewey class:
303.48330973
Language:
English
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Subject:
Information society -- Social aspects -- United StatesInformation technology -- Social aspects -- United StatesSocial media -- Social aspects -- United StatesPropaganda, AmericanWhite supremacy movements -- United StatesRadicalism -- United StatesSocial media -- Political aspects -- United StatesInternet -- Political aspects -- United StatesOnline social networks -- Political aspects -- United StatesExtremists -- United States
BRN:
365546
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs | 303.48330973 MAR | Available |