Internet & Society
Books on life online: social media and teen mental health, lost attention, dating apps and the tech companies behind it all. Each summary helps you look at your own screen habits with fresh eyes.
Internet & Society Library
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other
Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
Dear America: Live Like It's 9/12
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It
Economics for the Common Good
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Advertising Industry (and Everything Else)
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence―A Must-Read for Parents and Anyone Who Cares for Teens and Young Adults, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT reporter
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable
I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
Modern Romance