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  • Manufacturing Consensus

    Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

    by Samuel Woolley ...
    An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propagandaUntil recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Samuel Woolley argues that social media has democratized today’s propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated, computationally enhanced influence ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Reality Game

    How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth

    by Samuel Woolley ...
    Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives?Online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Samuel Woolley shows in this urgent book, it may pale in comparison to what's to come: humanlike automated voice systems, machine learning, "deepfake ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bots

    by Nick Monaco, Samuel Woolley ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    Bots – automated software applications programmed to perform tasks online – have become a feature of our everyday lives, from helping us navigate online systems to assisting us with online shopping. Yet, despite enabling internet users, bots are increasingly associated with disinformation and concerning political intervention.In this ground-breaking book, Monaco and Woolley offer the first ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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    Manufacturing Consensus

    Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity

    by Samuel Woolley ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    An in-depth exploration of social media and emergent technology that details the inner workings of modern propagandaUntil recently, propaganda was a top-down, elite-only system of communication control used largely by state actors. Today, as Samuel Woolley argues, social media has democratized propaganda, allowing nearly anyone to launch a fairly sophisticated, computationally enhanced, propaganda ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Reality Game

    How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth

    by Samuel Woolley ...
    Narrated by Angelo Di Loreto ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media feeds into our everyday lives?Online disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Samuel Woolley shows in this urgent book, it may pale in comparison to what's to come: humanlike automated voice systems, machine learning, "deepfake ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Computational Propaganda

    Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media

    Edited by Samuel C. Woolley, Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social media bots collect and distribute legitimate information, while others ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    The Coming Wave

    AI, Power, and Our Future

    by Mustafa Suleyman ...
    Narrated by Mustafa Suleyman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari**“Essential reading.” ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

    A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

    by Mark Manson ...
    Narrated by Roger Wayne ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    #1 New York Times Bestseller • More than 10 million Copies SoldIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be ""positive"" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. ""F**k positivity,"" Mark Manson says. ""Let’s be ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Obfuscation

    A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

    by Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Meganets

    How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities

    by David B. Auerbach ...
    How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives – as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics – are transforming life, society, culture, and politics.David Auerbach’s exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives: from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spam

    A Shadow History of the Internet

    by Finn Brunton ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself.The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As ... Read more

    $21.99 USD