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Social Warming - Why Society is Overheating and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover): Charles Arthur

Social Warming - Why Society is Overheating and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)

Charles Arthur

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Nobody meant for this to happen.

Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide.

Twitter didn’t want to be used to harass women.

YouTube never planned to radicalise young men.

But with billions of users, these platforms need only tweak their algorithms to generate more ‘engagement’. In so doing, they bring unrest to previously settled communities and erode our relationships.

Social warming has happened gradually – as a by-product of our preposterously convenient digital existence. But the gradual deterioration of our attitudes and behaviour on- and offline – this vicious cycle of anger and outrage – is real. And it can be corrected. Here’s how.

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Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2021
Authors: Charles Arthur
Dimensions: 225 x 146 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-997-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society
Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General
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LSN: 1-78607-997-6
Barcode: 9781786079978

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