Catalog Search Results
Author
Formats
Description
"Are you your own worst critic? Do you compare yourself to friends, classmates, and celebrities? You aren't alone. It's easy to get caught up in the comparison game -- especially on social media. But over time, these negative habits feed your insecurities and make you feel like you just aren't good enough. So, how can you break free from self-criticism and start being a true friend to you? With this fun and friendly guide, you'll discover 50 simple...
Author
Description
A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until...
Author
Appears on list
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. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 105 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Ashesh Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy. The book provides actionable solutions to minimize these costs. This book provides a new perspective on the dark side of the internet, and gives readers the tools to become a smart user of the internet.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 297 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 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's own expertise as both a scientist and an influencer himself, he reveals how influence works"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
64 pages ; color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Social media can be used for good or for evil. In 2018, organizers of the March for Our Lives used social media to bring roughly 500,000 people to Washington, DC, to peacefully protest against gun violence--a powerful example of how social media can be used for good. But the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 showed just as powerfully how social media can also be used for evil. Behavioral addiction is a mental health condition in which a person...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request