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Antisocial - Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Paperback)
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Antisocial - Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Paperback)
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"Trenchant and intelligent." --The New York Times As seen/heard on
NPR, New Yorker Radio Hour, The New York Book Review Podcast, PBS
Newshour, CNBC, and more. A New York Times Book Review Editors'
Choice A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 From a rising star at
The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic
entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and
democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the
alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the
mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff
writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of
social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naivete and reckless
ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and
transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he
calls "the gate crashers"--the conspiracists, white supremacists,
and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media
to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly--from
the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the
present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House
press briefing room--and traces how the unthinkable becomes
thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen
narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of
George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the
boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been
erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape--the
landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated
young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization,
and how fringe ideas spread--from anonymous corners of social media
to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with
the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the
forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the
communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their
interventions too little too late?
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