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  1. 📚 Against the Machine by: Paul Kingsnorth

    How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human

    In Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original and terrifying account of the technological-cultural ...

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    #books #reading #libraries #socialscience #essaysphilosophy #technologystudies

  2. 📚 Careless People by: Sarah Wynn-Williams

    An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

    From trips...

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  3. Recommended reading:

    Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

    A brilliant synthesis in which Rogers Brubaker charts the social consequences of a world in which everyone and everything are connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time.

    Tailor-made for teaching!

    #Commodon #MediaStudies #STS #Sociology #Digitalization #Technology #TechnologyStudies #SocialMedia