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Zucked : Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee HC Signed Copy
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very nice hardcover and dustjacket signed with a gift inscription by the author”
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- Yes
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Signed
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780525561354
- Book Title
- Zucked : Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Computers, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / Media & Internet, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Propaganda, American Government / General
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 19.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society - and sets out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. Until he simply couldn't. ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face. And then comes the election of Donald Trump, and the emergence of one horrific piece of news after another about the malign ends to which the Facebook platform has been put. To McNamee's shock, even still Facebook's leaders duck and dissemble, viewing the matter as a public relations problem. Now thoroughly alienated, McNamee digs into the issue, and fortuitously meets up with some fellow travelers who share his concern, and help him sharpen its focus. Soon he and a dream team of Silicon Valley technologists are charging into the fray, to raise consciousness about the existential threat of Facebook, and the persuasion architecture of the attention economy more broadly -- to our public health and to our political order. Zucked is both an enthralling personal narrative and a masterful explication of the forces that have conspired to place us all on the horns of this dilemma. This is the story of a company and its leadership, but it's also a larger tale of a business sector unmoored from normal constraints, just at a moment of political and cultural crisis, the worst possible time to be given new tools for summoning the darker angels of our nature and whipping them into a frenzy. Like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window , Roger McNamee happened to be in the right place to witness a crime, and it took him some time to make sense of what he was seeing and what we ought to do about it. The result of that effort is a wise, hard-hitting, and urgently necessary account that crystallizes the issue definitively for the rest of us.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525561358
ISBN-13
9780525561354
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309490186
Product Key Features
Book Title
Zucked : Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Media & Internet, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Propaganda, American Government / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Computers, Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm743.F33m347 2019
Reviews
"McNamee's work is both a first-rate history of social media and a cautionary manifesto protesting their often overlooked and still growing dangers to human society." -- Booklist "Regardless of where you stand on the issue, you'll want to see why one of Facebook's biggest champions became one of its fiercest critics." -- Business Insider "A comprehensible primer on the political pitfalls of big tech." -- Publishers Weekly "Roger McNamee's Zucked fully captures the disastrous consequences that occur when people running companies wielding enormous power don't listen deeply to their stakeholders, fail to exercise their ethical responsibilities and don't make trust their number one value." -- Marc Benioff, chariman and co-CEO of Salesforce "McNamee puts his finger on serious problems in online environments, especially social networking platforms. I consider this book to be a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the societal impact of cyberspace." -- Vint Cerf, internet pioneer "Roger McNamee is an investor with the nose of an investigator. This unafraid and unapologetic critique is enhanced by McNamee's personal association with Facebook's leaders and his long career in the industry. Whether you believe technology is the problem or the solution, one has no choice but to listen. It's only democracy at stake." -- Emily Chang, author of Brotopia "Roger McNamee is truly the most interesting man in the world -- legendary investor, virtuoso guitarist, and damn lucid writer. He's written a terrific book that is both soulful memoir and muckracking exposé of social media. Everyone who spends their day staring into screens needs to read his impassioned tale. -- Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind "A frightening view behind the scenes of how absolute power and panoptic technologiescan corrupt our politics and civic commons in this age of increasing-returns monopolies.Complementing Jaron Lanier's recent warnings with a clear-eyed view of politics,antitrust, and the law, this is essential reading for activists and policymakers as we workto preserve privacy and decency and a civil society in the internet age."-- Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems,creator of the Berkeley Unix operating system " Zucked is the mesmerizing and often hilarious story of how Facebook went from youngdarling to adolescent menace, not to mention a serious danger to democracy. Withrevelations on every page, you won't know whether to laugh or weep."-- Tim Wu, author of T he Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness "A well-reasoned and well-argued case against extractive technology." -- Kirkus, "McNamee's work is both a first-rate history of social media and a cautionary manifesto protesting their often overlooked and still growing dangers to human society." -- Booklist "Roger McNamee's Zucked fully captures the disastrous consequences that occur when people running companies wielding enormous power don't listen deeply to their stakeholders, fail to exercise their ethical responsibilities and don't make trust their number one value." -- Marc Benioff, chariman and co-CEO of Salesforce "McNamee puts his finger on serious problems in online environments, especially social networking platforms. I consider this book to be a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the societal impact of cyberspace." -- Vint Cerf, internet pioneer "Roger McNamee is an investor with the nose of an investigator. This unafraid and unapologetic critique is enhanced by McNamee's personal association with Facebook's leaders and his long career in the industry. Whether you believe technology is the problem or the solution, one has no choice but to listen. It's only democracy at stake." -- Emily Chang, author of Brotopia "Roger McNamee is truly the most interesting man in the world -- legendary investor, virtuoso guitarist, and damn lucid writer. He's written a terrific book that is both soulful memoir and muckracking exposé of social media. Everyone who spends their day staring into screens needs to read his impassioned tale. -- Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind "A frightening view behind the scenes of how absolute power and panoptic technologiescan corrupt our politics and civic commons in this age of increasing-returns monopolies.Complementing Jaron Lanier's recent warnings with a clear-eyed view of politics,antitrust, and the law, this is essential reading for activists and policymakers as we workto preserve privacy and decency and a civil society in the internet age."-- Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems,creator of the Berkeley Unix operating system " Zucked is the mesmerizing and often hilarious story of how Facebook went from youngdarling to adolescent menace, not to mention a serious danger to democracy. Withrevelations on every page, you won't know whether to laugh or weep."-- Tim Wu, author of T he Attention Merchants and The Curse of Bigness "A well-reasoned and well-argued case against extractive technology." -- Kirkus
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-048578
Dewey Decimal
302.30285
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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