{"product_id":"the-twittering-machine-hardcover","title":"The Twittering Machine - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Twittering Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we're getting out of it, and what we're getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history-to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous books about politics including \u003ci\u003eAgainst Austerity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCorbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing appears in the\u003ci\u003e The New York Times, the London Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Guardian, Jacobin, Prospect\u003c\/i\u003e, and other outlets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354766852345,"sku":"9781788739283","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eTlWdE1kZlBkaTFJOERtcFgzRFBTdz09.webp?v=1769843651","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-twittering-machine-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}