ISBN号:9780316703307
书名:The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
作者:Max Fisher
出版日期:2022-09-05T19:00:00+00:00
英文简介:
From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement–and profits–at all costs fractured the world.
The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein).
We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies.
But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood.
Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions.
As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection.
Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits.
The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear.
His narrative is about more than the villains, however.
Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech.
Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.
中文简介:
来自纽约时报调查记者的这篇“对社交媒体影响的权威和毁灭性的描述”（纽约时报书评）追踪了高风险的内幕故事，讲述了大型科技公司如何以极快的速度推动参与和利润——不惜一切代价破坏世界。
《混沌机器》是“我们这个时代必不可少的一本书”（Ezra Klein）。
我们都有一种模糊的感觉，即社交媒体对我们的思想、我们的孩子和我们的民主都有害。
但事实是，它的影响范围和影响远比我们所了解的要深远。
基于多年的国际报道，Max Fisher 讲述了 Facebook、Twitter、YouTube 和其他社交网络如何利用心理弱点来创建算法，驱使日常用户产生极端观点并越来越多地采取极端行动的扣人心弦的内幕故事。
正如 Fisher 所展示的那样，这些公司的创始宗旨，加上对最大限度地提高参与度的盲目关注，导致了一个对每个人来说都不稳定的世界。
穿越地球，费舍尔追踪了仇恨言论的普遍存在及其对暴力的蔓延，这些疾病首先在遥远的地方蔓延，直到它们在大流行病、2020 年大选和国会大厦暴动期间在美国的黑暗高潮。
自始至终，社交媒体巨头拒绝以任何有意义的方式进行干预，声称捍卫言论自由，而实际上他们最看重的是无限的利润。
正如费舍尔所展示的那样，其结果是一种文化转向，在这个世界中，人们的两极分化不是基于事实的信念，而是错误信息、愤怒和恐惧。
然而，他的叙述不仅仅是恶棍。
费舍尔还将英勇的局外人和硅谷叛逃者的故事编织在一起，他们发出了警报，揭示了大型科技公司紧闭的大门背后正在发生的事情。
《混沌机器》既全景又亲密，是对科技巨头的迅速崛起和麻烦缠身的权威描述，也是一个令人振奋和充满希望的呼吁，希望在为时已晚之前阻止对我们的思想和世界造成的浩劫。
书籍总体字数：130296，除去名字和专有名词等之后还剩余116935计入单词总数。
书籍单词数在10万至20万之间，难度稍大,还需要结合下方难度分析。
其中：
四级单词出现102314个/次,
六级单词（排除四级单词后）出现2808个/次，
托福单词出现56548个/次，
SAT单词出现9262个/次，
GRE单词出现15203个/次，考研单词出现104377个/次，
雅思单词出现31095个/次。
高中单词出现98143个/次。
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非常欢迎大家提供自己收集的词库给我。
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