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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
4.0
This book was published in 2017 and is even more relevant today. It discusses many of the social opportunities and dangers afforded by social media; she focused on protest movements but the points are widely applicable. She showed that there is no easy solution, no magic formula to keep the good of social media while excising the bad because much of both is rooted in human behavior that well predates technology.
The author is an academic and someone with personal experience in protests. The first- and second-hand descriptions of protests around the world were intriguing and easy to follow (plenty of background and explanation). Unfortunately, in the analysis the language got overly academic at times and bogged my reading pace. Interspersed clever analogies and historical context and comparisons helped to relieve this. The writing was worth pushing through and the book left me with plenty to think about.
The author is an academic and someone with personal experience in protests. The first- and second-hand descriptions of protests around the world were intriguing and easy to follow (plenty of background and explanation). Unfortunately, in the analysis the language got overly academic at times and bogged my reading pace. Interspersed clever analogies and historical context and comparisons helped to relieve this. The writing was worth pushing through and the book left me with plenty to think about.