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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
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- Release Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 9781324064619
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324064617
ISBN-13
9781324064619
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19067510988
Product Key Features
Book Title
Superbloom : How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Media & Internet, Communications
Publication Year
2025
Genre
Law, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
[An] eye-opening new book... We have, Carr concludes, 'been telling ourselves lies about communication--and about ourselves.' It's time we stop., This book might finally convince you to stay off social media--or at least get the apps off your phone...Carr promises to bring readers along into the murky waters of our ever expanding technological landscape., The 'superbloom' of flowers produced a superbloom of people, trampling the poppies, causing gridlock and creating a public-safety hazard. For Nicholas Carr, a thoughtful critic of technology and its consequences, all this is a metaphor for today's media-saturated world., [An] eye-opening new book...We have, Carr concludes, 'been telling ourselves lies about communication--and about ourselves.' It's time we stop., The case Carr makes is compelling... It is an inspiring rallying call, and Superbloom shows us what is at stake--but with market forces, peer pressure, and our own instincts ranged against us, this might be easier said than done. , "Carr, for his part, extols a "more material and less virtual existence." I think they're both right, even if trying to change one's own behavior feels small next to the structural forces delineated in their books. But for now, yes -- it's going to take willful acts of sensory deprivation for us to come to our senses.", Carr persuasively sounds the alarm about the destructive nature of social media and the corporations that control it., This book is so timely. I say this as an extremely online person who has a deep love for the culture and history of the internet: maybe some of this was a bad idea., The case Carr makes is compelling...It is an inspiring rallying call, and Superbloom shows us what is at stake--but with market forces, peer pressure, and our own instincts ranged against us, this might be easier said than done., Carr considers what we know about human communication and psychology and argues that modern social media is ideally suited to increase intolerance, anxiety, and factionalism. Turns out, more communication isn't automatically better...As always, Carr's perspective is urgent and bracing, a necessary challenge to idealistic visions of a democratic internet. , "The "superbloom" of flowers produced a superbloom of people, trampling the poppies, causing gridlock and creating a public-safety hazard. For Nicholas Carr, a thoughtful critic of technology and its consequences, all this is a metaphor for today's media-saturated world.", Carr considers what we know about human communication and psychology and argues that modern social media is ideally suited to increase intolerance, anxiety, and factionalism. Turns out, more communication isn't automatically better. . . As always, Carr's perspective is urgent and bracing, a necessary challenge to idealistic visions of a democratic internet. , This book might finally convince you to stay off social media--or at least get the apps off your phone... Carr promises to bring readers along into the murky waters of our ever expanding technological landscape., At times alarming, Superbloom is a profound reminder of what's at stake if we consume only ultraprocessed communication at the expense of real, embodied community., Carr, for his part, extols a 'more material and less virtual existence.' I think they're both right, even if trying to change one's own behavior feels small next to the structural forces delineated in their books. But for now, yes--it's going to take willful acts of sensory deprivation for us to come to our senses.
Synopsis
"This book might finally convince you to stay off social media--or at least get the apps off your phone." --Brianne Kane, Scientific American From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society., "This book might finally convince you to stay off social media--or at least get the apps off your phone." --Brianne Kane, Scientific American A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025 in Technology From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society., From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story. As communication becomes more mechanized and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us. A celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance from conversation, how "digital crowding" erodes empathy and triggers aggression, how online political debates narrow our minds and distort our perceptions, and how advances in AI are further blurring the already hazy line between fantasy and reality. Even as Carr shows how tech companies and their tools of connection have failed us, he forces us to confront inconvenient truths about our own nature. The human psyche, it turns out, is profoundly ill-suited to the "superbloom" of information that technology has unleashed. With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the self in a time of radical dislocation. It may be too late to change the system, Carr counsels, but it's not too late to change ourselves.
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