Genres: Social Media
Careless People – Sarah Wyn-Williams
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Did Facebook have some promise of being a force for good in the world, yes it probably did. But here Sarah Wynn-Williams shows that they were just lucky to be in the right place with a decent idea at the right time. The brass at Facebook are terrible managers, who merely stumble between bad ideas
The Siren’s Call – Chris Hayes
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The Siren’s Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don’t want. We don’t really want to doom scroll, but it’s hard to fight the generated content that gets put in front of us because it’s just compelling enough and provides just the right amount of dopamine hits to
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
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Cory Doctorow’s book explores Surveillance Capitalism and how we already have the tools around to deal with Big Tech, we just have to use the laws in place to hold technology companies to account instead of letting them get away with stealing our future. I got the most out of his look at digital locks
The Twittering Machine – Richard Seymour
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This is a critical look at Twitter (now X) and it’s impact on the world. One of my favourite quotes is: An industry that monetizes ‘time on device’ is a chronophage of a different order, with the tick of the clock replaced by the click of keys or the tap of thumbs on screen. A
