Tobias Rose-Stockwell

Outrage Machine (eBook, ePUB)

How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy - and What We Can Do About It

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A noticeable shift has occurred in the last two decades. The prevalence of hate speech online. The turn toward authoritarianism and populism across the western world. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news, and we're reacting faster and less rationally.

The cause is hidden in plain sight: for the first time, almost all of the information we consume is controlled and curated by algorithms designed to capture our emotional attention. This is the outrage machine. It is the wide-cast net of social media that is propelled by tech, has been exploited by all of us, and which has been allowed to steadily replace our newspapers, emergency communication systems, town halls, churches, and more. And this ubiquity has had unintended consequences.

OUTRAGE MACHINE reveals how to navigate a world that has been thoroughly disrupted by technology. It demystifies the underlying machinery that has come to control us and will help guide readers toward reflection rather than reaction. Pulling together 15 years of research and inquiry, Tobias Rose-Stockwell will give readers a language with which to comprehend what is happening to society, and offer new mental models for how to manage our time, our technology, and our attention, as well as big-picture recommendations for the way forward, how to redesign these platforms, and methods for fixing this broken system before it changes us for ever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780349427379
• Artikelnr.: 59739329

Autorenporträt

Tobias Rose-Stockwell is a writer, designer, and media researcher whose work has been featured in major outlets such as the BBC, The Atlantic, Wired, NPR, CNN and many others. His research has been cited in the adoption of key interventions to reduce toxicity and polarization within leading tech platforms. He previously led humanitarian projects in southeast Asia focused on civil-war reconstruction efforts, work for which he was honoured with an award from the 14th Dalai Lama. He lives in New York City.