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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, And The Hijacking Of The American Conversation
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Trenchant and intelligent. --The New York Times
As seen/heard on NPR, New Yorker Radio Hour, The New York Book Review Podcast, PBS Newshour, CNBC, and more.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of na vete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls the gate crashers--the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly--from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room--and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen Read More chevron_right
Trenchant and intelligent. --The New York Times
As seen/heard on NPR, New Yorker Radio Hour, The New York Book Review Podcast, PBS Newshour, CNBC, and more.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet--and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of na vete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls the gate crashers--the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly--from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room--and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape--the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread--from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late? chevron_left Read Less
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, And The Hijacking Of The American Conversation is 400 pages long.
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, And The Hijacking Of The American Conversation was written by Andrew Marantz
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Book Reviews (6)
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Wake Up America
Derived From Web , Oct 21, 2019
If you believe in American democracy, you must read this book. Scary because it is true. Andrew Marantz details meticulously how online journalism has been hijacked by responsible extremists. He explains the subject in such a way that even a middle-aged Luddite like me can understand it.
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Sobering but necessary read
Derived From Web , Oct 15, 2019
This is necessary reading for all who cares about democracy and thinks that we can ever go back to the way it was before Trump. The book of Marantz makes clear that while Trump may be the figurehead for the current movement, there is a deeper-rooted illness in this country that needs to be addressed head. And the men making billions of dollars fueling and benefitting from this sickness need to be held accountable. For such a fun book, Antisocial is depressing and sobering. You swallow it up.
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THE Story of the Decade
Derived From Web , Oct 14, 2019
The story of our times is the upending of our media, our politics and our society by naive tech innovators and clever, if amoral egotists. I can 't think of a more important thing to write about... or a more important thing to read about in order to understand this decade. Someone had to write this book, and Marantz does a brilliant job. He shares a generosity of understanding for how people end up believing what they believe and doing what they do, matched with an unflinching and often wry take on the same people's gaping blindspots and the sociopolitical implication of their actions.
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a MUST READ for the 2020 Election and beyond
Derived From Web , Oct 11, 2019
The book offers insight into a subject at the heart of American conversation. Based on Alt-right journalism, it takes you inside the shoe-leather Internet and Silicon Valley board rooms. Marantz offers a critical perspective on what is happening to public conversation and our democracy.
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Brilliant
Derived From Web , Oct 11, 2019
Richard E. Jones put an incredible amount of time and research into this book. He asked all the right questions and found intriguing and often frustrating answers. Read 2019 for 2019!
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Excellent and timely
Derived From Web , Oct 10, 2019
A social look at the evil unleashed by the so-called harsh and frightening '' media on society. Inform yourself before it is too late. And if the author sees monsters everywhere, that is because they are everywhere today.
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