Scary Tech?: Big Data, Surveillance, Information Overload, Tech Addiction, Propaganda, Dark Money...

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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,311 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating — 42,038 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 4.06 avg rating — 12,764 ratings
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked 3.85 avg rating — 12,528 ratings
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media 4.27 avg rating — 3,294 ratings
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism 3.89 avg rating — 3,799 ratings
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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech 4.15 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor 4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by: Tim Wu
4.08 avg rating — 4,775 ratings
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech 3.62 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
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Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right 3.45 avg rating — 6,559 ratings
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World 3.77 avg rating — 887 ratings
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future 3.96 avg rating — 9,472 ratings
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age 3.76 avg rating — 4,621 ratings
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) 3.73 avg rating — 12,378 ratings
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Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Lurking: How a Person Became a User 3.76 avg rating — 869 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings
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You Are Not a Gadget
You Are Not a Gadget 3.57 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 4.12 avg rating — 39,123 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology 3.93 avg rating — 12,330 ratings
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Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It
Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us 3.75 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road 4.41 avg rating — 50,875 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 3.89 avg rating — 32,232 ratings
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us 3.85 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond 3.84 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex 4.26 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest 4.08 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War 3.90 avg rating — 3,124 ratings
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) 3.12 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
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Who Owns the Future?
Who Owns the Future? 3.77 avg rating — 3,632 ratings
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The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld 3.64 avg rating — 4,954 ratings
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age 3.81 avg rating — 5,083 ratings
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy 3.59 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism 3.67 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
by: David Sax
3.77 avg rating — 2,699 ratings
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Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok & China’s ByteDance
Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok & China’s ByteDance 4.14 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It 4.11 avg rating — 2,189 ratings
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Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else 3.46 avg rating — 550 ratings
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The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection 3.64 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
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Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data 4.03 avg rating — 1,178 ratings
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation 3.64 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State 4.14 avg rating — 3,425 ratings
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Future Crimes
Future Crimes 3.93 avg rating — 4,365 ratings
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 3.58 avg rating — 17,739 ratings
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think 3.69 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
The Rise of the Network Society 3.97 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History 4.20 avg rating — 3,071 ratings
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Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal 4.04 avg rating — 18,912 ratings
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Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All 3.96 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Ctrl + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten
Ctrl + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten 3.52 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era 3.72 avg rating — 3,848 ratings
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The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data 3.97 avg rating — 5,335 ratings
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The Art of Cyber Conflict
The Art of Cyber Conflict 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data 3.96 avg rating — 14,835 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,102 ratings
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Digital Is Destroying Everything: What the Tech Giants Won’t Tell You about How Robots, Big Data and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future
Digital Is Destroying Everything: What the Tech Giants Won’t Tell You about How Robots, Big Data and Algorithms Are Radically Remaking Your Future 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It
The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values--and What We Can Do About It 3.74 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley 3.71 avg rating — 13,520 ratings
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 3.95 avg rating — 5,008 ratings
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire 4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty 3.98 avg rating — 659 ratings
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives 3.84 avg rating — 29,916 ratings
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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age 4.04 avg rating — 606 ratings
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google 3.83 avg rating — 18,677 ratings
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other 3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom 3.68 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness
The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness 3.32 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech 4.07 avg rating — 2,512 ratings
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The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age 3.76 avg rating — 1,017 ratings
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Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age 3.59 avg rating — 1,902 ratings
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All You Can Pay: How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets
All You Can Pay: How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets 3.55 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You 3.79 avg rating — 5,467 ratings
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload 3.65 avg rating — 14,163 ratings
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data 3.51 avg rating — 532 ratings
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The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems ... and Create More
The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems ... and Create More 3.57 avg rating — 628 ratings
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24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep 3.72 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
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Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age
Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age 3.59 avg rating — 187 ratings
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future 4.04 avg rating — 2,679 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better 3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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The Ecology of Attention
The Ecology of Attention 3.69 avg rating — 88 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Florentine Deception
The Florentine Deception 3.77 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity
Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity 3.56 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Cyburbia
Cyburbia 3.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley 3.49 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World 4.08 avg rating — 2,649 ratings
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#digitalparenting: A Parent's Guide to Social Media, Cyberbullying & Online Activity
#digitalparenting: A Parent's Guide to Social Media, Cyberbullying & Online Activity 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Journey 2022: Resolving Digital Dilemmas
Journey 2022: Resolving Digital Dilemmas 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life 4.03 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death 3.77 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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Shrinking the World
Shrinking the World 3.50 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture 3.65 avg rating — 4,354 ratings
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The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything
The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Dark Web: Exploring and Data Mining the Dark Side of the Web (Integrated Series in Information Systems, 30)
Dark Web: Exploring and Data Mining the Dark Side of the Web (Integrated Series in Information Systems, 30) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World
Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World 3.83 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension 3.52 avg rating — 590 ratings
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The Virtual Weapon and International Order
The Virtual Weapon and International Order 3.79 avg rating — 67 ratings
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