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Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
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English
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"A provocative, incisive look at the building of social movements-from the 1600s to the present day-and how current technology is undermining them. We tend to think of revolutions as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the streets. But the ideas fueling them have traditionally been conceived in much quieter spaces, in the small, secluded corners where a vanguard can whisper among themselves, imagine alternate realities, and deliberate over how...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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,...
44) Exalted: a novel
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Emily Forrest runs Exalted, the hottest astrology account on Instagram, from her studio apartment in Los Angeles. Burned out on meme-making and listicles, Emily's passion for astrology is waning despite her gift for deciphering the signs, until she comes across a birth-chart that could potentially change her mind. Beau Rubidoux's planets are aligned, each paired with its optimum sign--his chart is exalted. She decides that Beau, a well-connected...
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English
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The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book shows how to build and maintain a distinctive and credible employer brand and develop a set of relevant success metrics to help measure ROI. Starting with the current interest in employer branding, this book looks at the historical roots of brand management and the practical steps to achieve employer brand management success. The book will review the pressures which have generated current interest in employer branding. It goes on to look...
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Publisher
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Engaging and interacting through social media is essential for businesses in this day and age. Writing for social media can be difficult to get right and even big brands can get it wrong. This book walks you through how to write effectively for social media to deliver maximum benefit for your business.
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English
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A "novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twenty-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Apress L.P
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This book shows you how to use social media analytics to optimize your business performance. The tools discussed will prepare you to create and implement an effective digital marketing strategy. From understanding the data and its sources to detailed metrics, dashboards, and reports, this book is a robust tool for anyone seeking a tangible return on investment from social media and digital marketing. Social Media Analytics Strategy speaks to marketers...
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Publisher
Worthy
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen-our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective. Join author Natalie Franke as she shares her story of longing for connection in the chaos and lessons learned on her journey to true belonging. Together we'll uncover...
51) Followers
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English
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Orla Cadden dreams of literary success, but she's stuck writing about movie-star hookups and influence yoga moves. Orla has no idea how to change her life until her new roommate, Floss - a striving, wannabe A-lister-comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they so desperately crave. But it's only when Orla and Floss abandon all pretence of ethics that social media responds with the most terrifying feedback of all: overwhelming...
Author
Publisher
Que
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Learn how to get the most out of social media! We've identified the essential skills you need to stay connected with the people you care about; reconnect with old friends and classmates; and share your life with loved ones near and far. Our crystal-clear instructions respect your smarts but never assume you're an expert. Big, colorful photos on nearly every page make this book incredibly easy to read and use!"--
53) Hashtag
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Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hashtags silence as well as shout. They originate in the quiet of the archive and the breathless suspense of the control room, as well as in the roar of rallies in the streets. The #hashtag is a composite creation, with two separate design histories: one involving the crosshatch symbol and one about the choice of letters after it. Celebration and criticism of hashtag activism rarely addresses the hashtag itself as an object or tries to locate its...
54) Kill reply all
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Plume, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How do you reply to your colleague's weird email? What would Emily Post say about your Tinder profi le? 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 love to hate. The digital revolution has put us all within a...
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English
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An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit,...
Author
Series
Say everything volume 3
Language
English
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"Eliza Catalano's put-together life as a couples' therapist has been painstakingly curated for public consumption, but when a damning video of her goes viral, it'll take the help of rough-around-the-edges Beck for Eliza to discover that there's freedom to be found in embracing every perfectly imperfect part of herself"--
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"How can leaders increase their odds of being influential within their organizations and out in the external world? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways executives can increase their influence by sharing their power and listening more, manage the data and bots that are managing their businesses, and use Twitter and social media to shape the conversation about their companies."--Resource description page
59) Home Page
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1996, and documentary filmmaker Doug Block, fascinated by this new thing called the internet, trains his wry, analytical lens on the burgeoning home page (i.e. blogging) phenomenon. He soon falls under the spell of 21-year old cyber superstar Justin Hall, whose (literally) bare-all online diary spares no details about friends, family, lovers, and, inevitably, Block himself. When Hall goads the filmmaker into keeping his own online diary,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A guide to mining and analyzing data from social media websites. Combines both practical exercises and conceptual lessons on topics like writing a script to tap into an API and making sense of emoji usage in collected data"--
"Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language. Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit...
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