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Alaimo, Kara

Summary: "In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 ALA

Slater, Dashka

Summary: "When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.829 SLA

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SEA

Petersen, Sara

Summary: The private work of mothering has turned into a public performance. The message is simple: we're all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of motherhood--while momfluencers hawk essential oils, parenting manuals, baby slings, and other sponsored content. These are businesswomen--churning out their lives as content on a daily basis. Peterson interviews prominent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 PET

Hund, Emily

Summary: "Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry tells the story of how early digital creators scrambling for work amid the Great Recession gave rise to the multibillion-dollar industry that has fundamentally reshaped culture, the flow of information,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023

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Hertz, Noreena

Summary: "An economist takes on the most urgent social issue of our time, exploring the evolution of the global loneliness crisis, the sweeping impact of social isolation during the coronavirus, and the opportunities a post-Covid world presents to reverse these trends-by finding new ways to reconnect with each other, our communities, and even our democracy. Even before the global pandemic brought terms...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302 HER

Dorn, L. R.

Summary: "A modern tale of striving ambition, envy, desire and murder, and a mesmerizing take on Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy, this time set among California's beautiful people"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOR

Rosenfield, Kat

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Summary: Copper Falls, Maine. The local junkyard is burning, and town pariah Lizzie Ouellette is dead-- with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead him to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards, blonde and fabulous social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire, had been renting Lizzie's tiny lake house. As her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROS

Tobin, Paul

Summary: "Layne Green is a social media sensation of a cook. He's selected to compete on a reality TV show called Voyage de Gourmet - a globe-trotting foodie adventure. However, his partner is his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, someone that he really wronged with some of his posts. Can the two find forgiveness, flavor, and themselves on this journey?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick for Mad Cave Studios, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOB

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOB

Thompson, Nato

Summary: "One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 THO

Patrikarakos, David

Summary: "War in 140 Characters examines the role of social media and other forms of 'new media' in changing the face of modern warfare. War is, more than ever, a clash of narratives--with each state/party fighting to control the spread of information and project their narrative to the outside world. Social media has shattered traditional hierarchies between the state and its citizens, enabling the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 PAT

Hill, Marc Lamont

Summary: "A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West)...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.3 HIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 HIL

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