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The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health – and How We Must Adapt

bySinan Aral

The Hype Machine is Sinan Aral's economic analysis of how Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health: and How We Must Adapt. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of business & economics and computers. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Currency

Publication date

Sep 15, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

416

ISBN

9780525574514