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Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
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Description
Ending her relationship with a man who she discovers is a popular anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, a woman activist travels from Washington, DC, to Berlin, where she struggles with increasingly manipulative dynamics in her online, business, and social circles.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the ... activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience: she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship -- like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor -- April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
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Series
Language
English
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"The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimelydeath of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl's path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later,...
6) Tweet cute
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming - mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle real life while secretly runningBig League Burger's massive Twitter account. Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side. When he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin's shadow, he's busy working...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive book on helping kids navigate growing up in a world where nearly every moment of their lives can be shared and compared With social media and constant connection, the boundaries of privacy are stretched thin. Growing Up in Public shows parents how to help tweens and teens navigate boundaries, identity, privacy, and reputation in their digital world. We can track our kids' every move with apps, see their grades within minutes of being...
9) Going dark
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both Josh and Amelia's past."--Publisher marketing.
10) Influence
Author
Language
English
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Description
After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation-the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth-and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol. Advances in technology including rapid...
14) Unfriended
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table, she finds herself caught in a web of lies and misunderstandings, made unescapable by the hyperconnected social media world"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time--she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media--so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always...
16) #Murdertrending
Author
Series
#MurderTrending volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of murdering her stepsister, seventeen-year-old Dee fights to survive paid assassins on Alcatraz 2.0, the most popular prison on social media.
17) Whisker Wizard
Author
Series
Babymouse: Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 5
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Babymouse becomes a influencer after she tries out a new whisker style and posts a tutorial online"--
18) #MurderFunding
Author
Series
#MurderTrending volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Becca auditions for a new, non-lethal reality show featuring Painiacs, hoping to prove that her deceased mother was not Alcatraz 2.0 executioner, Molly Mauler.
Who Wants to Be a Paniac?, the latest reality TV show, on the hunt for the next big-hit serial killer. No one is actually going to murder anyone, as real as the fake gore and pretend murder may appear-- right? When Becca Martinello's perfectly normal soccer mom dies in a...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every"--
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old nurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.
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