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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
We've all heard the mind-boggling statistics about technology and social media use. The numbers don't lie; our obsession with smartphones and social media is slowly eroding the very essence of our homes and families. We see it. We feel it. We know it. So what do we do about it? Spoiler alert: Forget parental control apps, time limits, or reward charts. This revolutionary path takes us into the heart of the beast itself: the social media algorithm....
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By now it's clear that whether you're promoting a business, a product, or yourself, social media is near the top of what determines your success or failure. And there are countless pundits, authors, and consultants eager to advise you. But there's no one quite like Guy Kawasaki, the legendary former chief evangelist for Apple and one of the pioneers of business blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, Tumbling, and much, much more. Now Guy has teamed up with...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online--and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media. In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism that distorts our identities, empowers...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia might look like a Millennial but she was born yesterday. Emerging from a coma with short-term amnesia after an accident, Mia can't remember her own name until the Siri assistant on her iPhone provides it. Based on her cool hairstyle (undercut with glamorous waves), dress (Prada), and signature lipstick (Chanel), she senses she s wealthy, but the only way to know for sure is to retrace her steps once she leaves the hospital. Using Instagram and...
Author
Publisher
Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How do you reply to your colleague's weird email? What would Emily Post say about your Tinder profile? And just how do you know if you're mansplaining? In this irreverent journey through the murky world of digital etiquette, WIRED's Victoria Turk provides an indispensable guide to minding our manners in a brave new online world, and making peace with the platforms, apps, and devices we all love to hate. The digital revolution has put us all within...
Author
Series
Modern love volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love, and even less time for the men in her private messages--until the day a certain international superstar slides into her DMs, and she falls hard and fast. There's just one wrinkle: he has no idea who she is. The son of a...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lanier offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave the dangers of online platforms behind. He has seen their tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people. And he asks: How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy. What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sunny Song accidentally films a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate), she is shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants any shot at growing her social media platform this summer, she'll need to find a way back online. Thanks to some unexpected friendships, Sunny might be surprised by the connections she makes when she is forced to disconnect....
11) Need
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In this exploration of the dark side of social media, and government control and manipulation, the teenagers in a small town are drawn deeper and deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need--regardless of the consequences. --Provided by publisher.
12) Followers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss - a striving, wannabe A-lister - who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady - and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
13) Finally heard
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic self.
14) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children...
Author
Series
Publisher
Eldorado Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chances are, you ve taken at least a few selfies. But maybe you don t always like how they come out. In this book, you ll discover simple ways to improve your selfie game including how to look your best for a picture, choosing the right pose, lighting, and angle, and, most importantly, letting your personality shine through. You ll also learn how to make the background of your selfie work for you, and how to share the spotlight with a special place....
16) New think 1
Author
Series
New think volume 1
Publisher
Artists, Writers & Artisans, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This Black Mirror-style anthology examines the cultural and political polarization of the country and the technocrats that have driven us to such extremes of thought that we need to present the present as something futuristic.
Author
Publisher
Harper Business
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring entrepreneur, known for his popular The #AskGaryVee Show, highlights the most interesting questions ever posed to him and offers insights and advice on marketing, using social media, creating a personal brand and how to hire superstar employees. --Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy--just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams--Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes Evan was Connor's only friend. As Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar, Evan is filled with confidence... until things start unraveling. -- Adapted...
19) Big summer
Author
Language
English
Description
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time--she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media--so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always...
Author
Publisher
Benbella Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"In 'The Zen of Social Media Marketing', Shama Hyder Kabani, social media expert and president of The Marketing Zen Group (MarketingZen.com), teachesyou the "Zen" of social media marketing: how to use the most popular social media tools to find marketingnirvana" --Cover, p. 4.
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