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You’ve seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don’t know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like me. I’m a media manipulator. In a world where blogs control and distort the news, my job is to control blogs - as much as any one person can.

Could history repeat itself, with one giant entity taking control of American information? Most consider the Internet Age to be a moment of unprecedented freedom in communications and culture. But as Tim Wu shows, each major new medium, from telephone to cable, arrived on a similar wave of idealistic optimism only to become, eventually, the object of industrial consolidation profoundly affecting how Americans communicate.

Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this "attention economy", we need to recognize the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control.

Are we drowning in information, or simply being swept away by it? In The Age of Mess-Information, Victor Odasnac explores the chaotic collision of the internet, social media, mobile technology, and artificial intelligence—and how this has led to an overwhelming flood of information that is reshaping our society. Beyond misinformation and disinformation lies mess-information: a relentless barrage of narratives, truths, and lies that obscures clarity, erodes critical thinking, and leaves us questioning whether truth itself is even attainable. This thought-provoking book takes you on a ...

When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance.

On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

In this book, Arun Sundararajan, an expert on the sharing economy, explains the transition to what he describes as "crowd-based capitalism" - a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model. As peer-to-peer commercial exchange blurs the lines between the personal and the professional, how will the economy, government regulation, what it means to have a job, and our social fabric be affected?

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the 21st century. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be the masters of information and machines or its slaves.

The New York Times best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.

In this audiobook, David Gunkel offers a provocative attempt to think about what has been previously regarded as unthinkable: whether and to what extent robots and other technological artifacts of our own making can and should have any claim to moral and legal standing.

Molly McPherson is a nationally recognized expert on crisis public relations management in the age of social media. She helps communicators create the right message, at the right time, and deliver it in the right place. From her years of crisis-management experience and mining news stories and tweets, Molly created frameworks to level up your confidence for communicating with ease in crucial crisis moments, so you can own the conversation.

Gabourey Sidibe - "Gabby" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels' acclaimed movie Precious. In This Is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she's played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway.

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning this paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease.

Declutter every aspect of your life - from your wardrobe, exercise schedule and food budget to your phone, bookshelves and beauty regime - with this realistic guide to getting neat and keeping things that way. Anna Newton is just trying to balance work, her friends, her family, her husband Mark, a growing handbag habit and a love for takeaway pizza. Over the past eight years of running the blog and corresponding YouTube Channel The Anna Edit, she's grown a loyal viewership who tune in for her weekly videos on everything from house renovations to the best summer foundation.

Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the best-selling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in print. The Great Shark Hunt is Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's largest and, arguably, most important work, covering Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine. These essays offer brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in signature Thompson style. Thompson's razor-sharp insight and crystal clarity capture the crazy, hypocritical, degenerate, and redeeming aspects of the explosive and colorful '60s and '70s.

Lolita, Muerte en Venecia, El extranjero, Manhattan Transfer, Trópico de Cáncer y El tambor de hojalata son solo algunas de las obras del siglo XX de las que nos habla Mario Vargas Llosa en estas páginas. Revela con sus palabras la íntima relación de su lectura con las posibilidades de ampliar nuestra experiencia vital.

En este revelador Audible Original, el profesor Michael Shermer, editor de la revista Skeptic y presentador del podcast Salón de la Ciencia, muestra las teorías conspirativas históricamente preponderantes y ayuda a entender cómo y por qué surgieron, quiénes eran propensos a creer en ellas y perpetuarlas y qué hay en realidad detrás de todas esas creencias.

Los datos nos rodean. Se han convertido en un activo esencial, pero no solo para las empresas que se dedican a sacarles provecho, sino también para cualquier gobierno, institución o persona que quiera tomar mejores decisiones. Tanto si queremos escoger la escuela de nuestros hijos, como estudiar las ballenas, hacer fichajes de futbolistas o entender los grandes acontecimientos sociales y políticos, hoy es fundamental descifrar lo que nos dicen los números. Casi nada en nuestra vida vida quedará fuera.

Este audiolibro es una investigación periodística y un recuento sobre una situación que, desde hace décadas, ha llevado a familias mexicanas enteras a abandonar sus hogares: la gentrificación o, como preferimos decirle, el blanqueamiento por despojo. Este fenómeno migratorio y socioeconómico rompe la identidad comunitaria y nos desarraiga del espacio que antes nos pertenecía.

Las investigaciones e infografías sobre los casos de crímenes, fenómenos paranormales y eventos históricos más peculiares y fantásticos, que se ganaron el título de LEYENDAS LEGENDARIAS.

Muchas son las culturas que nos hablan de la existencia de unos seres Reptilianos considerados como dioses: Los Anunnaki. Hay muchas evidencias, rastros que estos seres han dejado en nuestra historia. Los antiguos indicaron y representaron a estos dioses en sus pinturas, escritos, y por sobre todo, sus edificaciones, las cuales son imposibles de replicar en nuestra actualidad. Sus conocimientos tanto tecnológicos como su conciencia del universo influenciaron en nuestra historia.... Incluso, hasta nuestros días....

El auge de las redes sociales en los últimos 15 años ha sido asombroso y ha dado voz a miles de millones en todo el mundo que habrían vivido toda su vida y nunca habrían sido escuchados. Pocos fuera de la comunidad de programación entienden el modelo de negocio de las redes sociales y, lamentablemente, muy pocos en el gobierno. Las redes sociales en esencia pueden ser muy sociales, pero la cantidad de conexiones que se pueden establecer no está regulada y, en determinadas circunstancias, puede conducir a la desindividuación. El derecho de las personas a la libertad de expresión, ...

¿Que es el Nuevo Orden Mundial o NOM? En este libro explicamos de forma concisa, clara y amena que es exactamente. Como nos manipulan y como durante la historia antigua y la más reciente estamos influenciados por la élite, manejados como si fuéramos un rebaño y de alguna forma participes de este Nuevo Orden Mundial. En este libro encontrarás las distintas familias que nos gobiernan, la élite bancaria, sus símbolos y como han manipulado la economía, el dinero-deuda y un largo etc. Resolvemos las dudas que presentan y que en el Internet nadie consigue explicar. El libro definitivo ...

¿De dónde surge el pensamiento conspiranoico? Para Noel Ceballos, la conspiranoia es un marco paranoico con el que enfrentarse a un mundo cada vez más complejo y caótico. Una fórmula mágica con la que reordenar la cacofoniá informativa cotidiana hasta dar con una narración satisfactoria. Pero las teoriás conspirativas actuales no son nuevas, sino meras actualizaciones de elaboradísimas falsedades o burdas mentiras - con apariencia de verdad - que llevan siglos circulando por las sociedades occidentales.