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In fiction and in fact, these books trace how in less than 15 years, billions of people have given up a good deal of their waking life to Web 2.0 by Matthew Sperling, Lecturer in Literature in English.
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Has
anything ever caused a faster transformation in our practices of living
than social media? Fifteen years ago, it barely existed; today, it
occupies a large portion of the waking consciousness of a few billion
people. It has touched all aspects of life: for many people, their most
intimate conceptions of themselves, their relations to other people,
their political commitments, and their sexuality – as well as their
basic livelihoods – are now tangled up in the loose cluster of phenomena
known as Web 2.0.
The 10 books I’ve chosen here trace the development of social media across the last decade, explore its effects in everyday life, and place it in its wider context. They share a sense of its enormous dynamism and power, as well as its vertiginous capacity for harm.
Source: The Guardian
