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Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"A bottom-up strategy [intended] to produce a focused, thorough, and compelling presence on the most popular social-media platforms ... [guiding] you through steps to build your foundation, amass your digital assets, optimize your profile, attract more followers, and effectively integrate social media and blogging"--Amazon.com.
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The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction with only their presence. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carls' path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later, April's friends are trying...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea,when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
4) Follow me
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From the author of Are You Sleeping-soon to be an Apple TV series-comes a cautionary tale of oversharing in the social media age for fans of Jessica Knoll and Caroline Kepnes's You"--
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Max Fisher unfolds the definitive account of how the social-media harms that sometimes began in forgotten pockets of the world saw their dark culmination in American through the pandemic, the 2020 election, and Capitol Insurrection. The result is an intimately detailed account of the consequences of the polarization that social media incubates: the cancellations, the omnipotence of hate speech, and the spillover into real-world violence.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She's given up on finding love, but that's fine. There's always Tinder. Nick thinks he has nothing: his writing career has stalled after early promise and his marriage is on the rocks, but that's fine. There's always gin. So when one of Nick's emails, a viciously funny screed intended for a non-paying client, accidentally pings...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; cm
Description
You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we?re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Lanier's reasons for freeing ourselves from social media?s poisonous grip include its...
8) Disconnect
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Author
Publisher
Que
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xv, 320 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"...We?ve identified the essential skills you need to stay connected with the people you care about; reconnect with old friends and classmates; and share your life with loved ones near and far..."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; cm
Description
"?millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy has joined with marketing strategist Kim Walsh-Phillips to help business owners, private practice professionals, and professional marketers start making dollars and cents of their social media marketing. Daring readers to stop accepting non-monetizable “likes” and “shares” for their investment of time, money, and energy, Kennedy and Walsh-Phillips urge readers to see their social platforms for what they are...
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"The Novelist, which follows a young man over the course of a single morning as he fails to write an autobiographical novel about his heroin addiction and recovery, finding himself drawn into the infinite spaces of Twitter, quotidian rituals, and his own mind. The Novelist is about language and consciousness, the Internet and social media, and addiction and recovery. Itis a literary manifesto of optimism about deciding to live, even if the project...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
592 pages cm
Description
"In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and almost...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 297 pages ; 23 cm
Description
This book unpacks what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we click 'Like' or even just scroll for new content on social media. Through interviews with top influencers, the latest studies, and pop-culture anecdotes, and Dr. Boxer Wachler'sown expertise as both a scientist and an influencer himself, he reveals how influence works.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
373, 10 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Suffering humiliating setbacks for her overuse of social media, Manhattan lawyer Evie resolves to live life without her smartphone and makes a haphazard transition to relationships not dominated by tweets, texts, and posts.
16) Imitating Life
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This film follows the unlikely but true story of photographer Suzanne Heintz, and an extraordinary act of defiance that catapults her life, and art, into the social media spotlight. She creates a mannequin family and embarks on a global crusade against societal pressure to conform, resulting in a raw, funny and intimate portrait of life through her lens. Part comedy, part drama, part real life – we witness it all.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
This Spike & Mike documentary is a journey told through the stories of those they impacted – people like Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Nick Park and many others.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst--but Kayleigh needs money. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. It's grueling work. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xviii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"An inspiring entrepreneur, known for his popular The #AskGaryVee Show, highlights the most interesting questions ever posed to him and offers insights and advice on marketing, using social media, creating a personal brand and how to hire superstar employees."--Publisher's description.
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