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Could someone recommend me good and interesting books about how social media changed/s people. Socially and psychologically. I just read Stolen Focus 2022, a b
by taopai 3y ago
Could someone recommend me good and interesting books about how social media changed/s people. Socially and psychologically.
I just read Stolen Focus 2022, a book that talks about the downside of social media. But I got a little bit disenchanted with the second half.
Is Cognitive Surplus a good book? What else comes in your mind?
Thank you.
- criddell 3y agoWhile this doesn't directly match what you are looking for, you might be interested in Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death from 1985. From Wikipedia: > In Amusing, Postman argued that by expressing ideas through visual imagery, television reduces politics, news, history and other serious topics to entertainment. He worried that culture would decline if the people became an audience and their public business a "vaudeville act". He also argued that television is destroying the "serious and rational public conversation" that was sustained for centuries by the printing press. Rather than the restricted information in George Orwell's 1984, he claimed the flow of distraction we experience is akin to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
- taopai 3y agoThis is the kind of book I was looking for! Thank you! Books are really changing my life, and the best suggestions come from this website! Great books are amazing, it's sad now people focuses on pics and funny videos. I hope my friends read more.
- yamrzou 3y ago- The Shallows - Amusing Ourselves to Death - Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
- taopai 3y agoThank you. Wow, Reader, Come Home sounds very interesting! Now I am reading Reading in the Brain, a book that talks about how brain processes reading. Your suggestion it's a great match to follow it. I really like this topic! Thank!
- sbarker 3y agoI have not read Stolen Focus yet. But I enjoyed Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neal Postman and Bullshit jobs - David Graeber
- taopai 3y agoThank you! Other users recommended Amusing Ourselves to Death, this is what I was looking for. I'll add it to my list. I'll be enjoying it next week! :)