From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet - and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls 'the gate crashers' - the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly - from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room - and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape - the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread—from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?
Author(s): Andrew Marantz
Publisher: Viking/PanMacmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
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Pages: 354
Tags: Pnline Extremists, Social Media
Title Page......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
Epigraph......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Prologue......Page 9
PART ONE DeploraBall......Page 15
CHAPTER ONE This Is America......Page 16
CHAPTER TWO Pride......Page 24
CHAPTER THREE The Contrarian Question......Page 38
CHAPTER FOUR To Change How We Talk Is to Change Who We Are......Page 51
INTERLUDE: MOVABLE TYPE......Page 63
PART TWO A Human Superpower......Page 69
CHAPTER FIVE The Gleaming Vehicle......Page 70
CHAPTER SIX Viral Guy......Page 77
CHAPTER SEVEN Basically My Nightmare......Page 84
CHAPTER EIGHT Eating the World......Page 90
CHAPTER NINE Brainwreck Politics......Page 98
CHAPTER TEN The Sailer Strategy......Page 102
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Invisible Primary......Page 113
PART THREE Too Big to Ignore......Page 120
CHAPTER TWELVE Beyond Good and Evil......Page 121
CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Filter for Quality......Page 131
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Attention Is Influence......Page 139
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Reductio......Page 150
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Media Matrix......Page 157
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Fitness and Unfitness......Page 162
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Transplant......Page 166
CHAPTER NINETEEN Poise Is a Club......Page 175
CHAPTER TWENTY “Meta Post Script”......Page 181
INTERLUDE: TRUST NOTHING......Page 185
PART FOUR The Swamp......Page 193
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The News of the Future......Page 194
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The Narrative of Public Life......Page 203
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Very Professional and Very Good......Page 210
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Success and Empire......Page 218
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE The Bright Day That Brings Forth the Adder......Page 221
INTERLUDE: THE PAST IS ABSOLUTE......Page 229
PART FIVE The American Berserk......Page 238
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX The Emptiness......Page 239
THE AMERICAN BERSERK II......Page 276
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The Mountain......Page 277
PART SIX A Night for Freedom......Page 298
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Common Sense......Page 299
Epilogue......Page 315
Glossary......Page 319
Acknowledgments......Page 324
Footnotes......Page 326
Notes......Page 347
Copyright......Page 354
