Inside the Platform Machine
Investigative and theoretical accounts of how social platforms monetize attention, suppress what they know, and reshape politics and public life.
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The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff, PublicAffairsZuboff provides the foundational account of surveillance capitalism and explains the business incentives that drive...Shelf signal: Privacy & Surveillance
The Chaos MachineMax Fisher, Peter GanimThe Chaos Machine offers investigative reporting on social platforms’ mechanics, harms, and journalistic attempts to...Shelf signal: Social Media & Online Life
Winners Take AllAnand GiridharadasWinners Take All explains how elite-led solutions can mask structural problems and helps situate tech philanthropy and...Shelf signal: Social Class
The Most Dangerous BranchDavid A. KaplanThe Most Dangerous Branch contextualizes how media and legal institutions interact with platform power and the...Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
That Book Is Dangerous!Adam SzetelaThat Book Is Dangerous! examines social-media-driven censorship and cancelation debates, relevant to cultural fallout...Shelf signal: Censorship & Free Speech
LikewarP. W. Singer, Emerson T. BrookingLikewar explains how social media becomes weaponized in politics and society, illuminating the misinformation harms...Shelf signal: Security Studies