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The Chaos Machine de Max Fisher

The Chaos Machine

Autor Max Fisher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 oct 2023

Observăm că, deși există o conștientizare generală a efectelor nocive ale rețelelor sociale, literatura academică și de investigație a dus lipsă de o sinteză care să lege mecanismele psihologice interne de evenimentele geopolitice globale. The Chaos Machine completează această lacună, oferind o analiză riguroasă a modului în care goana după profit a giganților tehnologici a dus la rescrierea proceselor cognitive umane. Autorul Max Fisher nu se limitează la o critică abstractă, ci urmărește traiectoria discursului instigator la ură din comunități izolate până la evenimente de o gravitate extremă, precum insurecția de la Capitoliu din 2021.

Remarcăm structura narativă care îmbină jurnalismul de investigație cu date din psihologia comportamentală. Volumul extinde cadrul propus de Antisocial Media de Siva Vaidhyanathan cu date noi din perioada pandemiei și a alegerilor americane din 2020, oferind o perspectivă actualizată asupra modului în care algoritmii exploatează vulnerabilitățile umane pentru a genera extremism. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări care analizează doar fenomenul dezinformării, Fisher aduce în prim-plan mărturiile celor care au construit aceste sisteme, oferind o privire din interior asupra refuzului companiilor de a interveni în fața haosului social.

Apreciem tonul echilibrat, dar ferm, al autorului, care reușește să transforme o temă tehnică într-o cronică despre puterea și responsabilitatea în era digitală. Ediția de față, publicată de Quercus Books, este esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care polarizarea nu mai este doar o chestiune de convingeri, ci un rezultat direct al arhitecturii digitale care prioritizează reacțiile emoționale și teama în detrimentul faptelor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316703307
ISBN-10: 0316703303
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor interesat de impactul tehnologiei asupra democrației și sănătății mentale. The Chaos Machine oferă o explicație clară și documentată despre cum algoritmii ne modifică percepția asupra realității. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru studenții la sociologie, științe politice sau studii media, oferind un context factual crucial pentru a înțelege crizele dezinformării din ultimul deceniu.

Despre autor

Max Fisher este un reputat reporter de investigație și editorialist pentru New York Times, unde semnează rubrica „The Interpreter”, dedicată explorării ideilor și contextelor din spatele marilor evenimente globale. Cu o experiență vastă pe cinci continente, Fisher a fost anterior editor fondator la Vox.com și a gestionat secțiuni de politică externă pentru The Atlantic și Washington Post. Expertiza sa în analiza conflictelor și a schimbărilor sociale îi conferă autoritatea necesară pentru a decripta mecanismele complexe prin care tehnologia influențează societatea contemporană.

Notă biografică

Max Fisher is an international reporter for the New York Times, where he authors a column called “The Interpreter,” which explains global trends and major world events, and where he contributed to a series about social media that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2019. Fisher previously covered international affairs at The Atlantic and the Washington Post. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review)  tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein).
We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.

Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear.

His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.

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'The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times' - Ezra Klein

The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar; the rampant spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories as deadly as the pandemic itself; all of these are products of a breakdown in our social and political lives, a breakdown driven by the apps, companies and algorithms that compete constantly for our attention.

Max Fisher is a leading New York Times technology reporter whose work has covered the way that social media sites - driven increasingly by artificial intelligence rather than human ingenuity - push users towards more and more extreme positions, deepening the divisions in society in pursuit of greater engagement and profit. With extraordinary access to the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, and with testimonies from around the world of the havoc being wreaked by our online selves, The Chaos Machine shows us how we got to this uniquely perilous moment - and how we might get out of it.

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Social media isn't just changing our lives. It's changing the world, and even its creators and would-be overseers have only the foggiest ideas about how. In this meticulously reported, grippingly told account, Max Fisher chases the results across continents, and paints a disturbing picture of not just where we are, but where we're going. The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times
Max Fisher blends together deep reporting, riveting stories, and a global canvas in this gripping and definitive work on the damage wrought by social media. The Chaos Machine is essential reading if you want to understand a force that is reshaping the world and the very real consequences it is having on people everywhere
In this timely book, Max Fisher reveals how powerful social-media giants set all of humanity on an alternative course to the future. The Chaos Machine boldly exposes how a few technology companies chose profit over people, helped spread salacious misinformation, and ultimately ripped the fabric of society apart. I hope everyone will read this important investigation with an open mind, because we must choose a different path forward, and fast
Well argued, engaging and often necessarily discomfiting
A stark warning about the extent to which Facebook et al distort our perception of reality
Fisher's book brings us face to face with chaos machines and their ruinous human consequences - Literary Review