22 Best Web Books
Web is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Web audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 22 Web audiobooks below.
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Raising Humans in a Digital World
- By: Diana Graber
- Narrator: Diana Graber
- Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: January 15, 2019
- Language: English
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4.24(125 ratings)
4.24(125 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment. Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators…all of these potential threats can temptThe Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment.
Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators…all of these potential threats can tempt parents to snatch the smartphone or tablet out of their children’s hands. While avoidance might eliminate the dangers, that approach also means your child misses out on technology’s many benefits and opportunities.
In Raising Humans in a Digital World, digital literacy educator Diana Graber shows how children must learn to handle the digital space through:
- developing social-emotional skills
- balancing virtual and real life
- building safe and healthy relationships
- avoiding cyberbullies and online predators
- protecting personal information
- identifying and avoiding fake news and questionable content
- becoming positive role models and leaders
Raising Humans in a Digital World is packed with at-home discussion topics and enjoyable activities that any busy family can slip into their daily routine.
Full of practical tips grounded in academic research and hands-on experience, today’s parents finally have what they’ve been waiting for–a guide to raising digital kids who will become the positive and successful leaders our world desperately needs.
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Make Noise
- By: Eric Nuzum
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 10, 2019
- Language: English
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4.14(235 ratings)
4.14(235 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDPodcasting is the fastest-growing media platform in the world, with currently 650,000 podcasts out there, in 100 languages, and offering over 20 million episodes. And we’re only at the beginning. More and more podcasts appear every day, andPodcasting is the fastest-growing media platform in the world, with currently 650,000 podcasts out there, in 100 languages, and offering over 20 million episodes. And we’re only at the beginning. More and more podcasts appear every day, and more and more entrepreneurs, businesses, individuals, and distributors, like Spotify, are getting into this world. One person many people turn to for help launching their podcasts is Eric Nuzum, a veteran of NPR and Audible who’s had a hand in creating and launching over 130 podcasts. And the reason is that Nuzum understands the essentials of what makes a podcast work and knows how to help creators shepherd their vision from rough idea to finished product.
Make Noise brings all the wisdom, advice, practical information, and big-picture thinking that any individual or business needs to make a successful podcast. He identifies core principles–such as create empathetically, i.e., think like the audience listens, and stay focused on what’s unique to you and what you have to say. He helps listeners come up with a “Ten Word Description” that will guide them throughout the creative process and then gets into how-tos–how to develop character, story, voice; how to conduct an effective interview; how to be mindful of the limitations of audio (be more like Hemingway than Faulkner). He provides the rules of storytelling, advice on how to test-drive an idea, and, when it’s all ready, how to develop your audience.
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Crash Override
- By: Zoe Quinn
- Narrator: Zoe Quinn
- Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 05, 2017
- Language: English
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4.1(1202 ratings)
4.1(1202 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDYou’ve heard the stories about the dark side of the internet — hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn — but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.You’ve heard the stories about the dark side of the internet — hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn — but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.
Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-truths, and outright fictions, along with a rallying cry to the online hordes to go after her. They answered in the form of a so-called movement known as #gamergate–they hacked her accounts; stole nude photos of her; harassed her family, friends, and colleagues; and threatened to rape and murder her. But instead of shrinking into silence as the online mobs wanted her to, she raised her voice and spoke out against this vicious online culture and for making the internet a safer place for everyone.
In the years since #gamergate, Quinn has helped thousands of people with her advocacy and online-abuse crisis resource Crash Override Network. From locking down victims’ personal accounts to working with tech companies and lawmakers to inform policy, she has firsthand knowledge about every angle of online abuse, what powerful institutions are (and aren’t) doing about it, and how we can protect our digital spaces and selves.
Crash Override offers an up-close look inside the controversy, threats, and social and cultural battles that started in the far corners of the internet and have since permeated our online lives. Through her story — as target and as activist — Quinn provides a human look at the ways the internet impacts our lives and culture, along with practical advice for keeping yourself and others safe online.
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It Came from Something Awful
- By: Dale Beran
- Narrator: Dale Beran
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 30, 2019
- Language: English
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4.06(608 ratings)
4.06(608 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis program is read by the author. An insider’s history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Donald Trump into the White House.The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence,This program is read by the author.
An insider’s history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Donald Trump into the White House.
The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of 4chan and its profound effect on youth counterculture.Dale Beran has observed the website’s shifting activities and interests since the beginning. 4chan is a microcosm of the internet itself–simultaneously at the vanguard of contemporary culture, politics, comedy and language, and a new low for all of the above. It was the original meme machine, mostly frequented by socially awkward and disenfranchised young men in search of a place to be alone together.
During the recession of the late 2000’s, the memes became political. 4chan was the online hub of a leftist hacker collective known as Anonymous and a prominent supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. But within a few short years, the site’s ideology spun on its axis; it became the birthplace and breeding ground of the alt-right. In It Came from Something Awful, Beran uses his insider’s knowledge and natural storytelling ability to chronicle 4chan’s strange journey from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to–according to some–memeing Donald Trump into the White House.
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Platform
- By: Michael Hyatt
- Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: April 30, 2012
- Language: English
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4.05(7942 ratings)
4.05(7942 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDHow do you turn your social media accounts into viable business opportunities? Michael Hyatt has the blueprint. Michael Hyatt learned to use his social media platform as the foundation for his own successful writing, speaking, and business coachingHow do you turn your social media accounts into viable business opportunities? Michael Hyatt has the blueprint.
Michael Hyatt learned to use his social media platform as the foundation for his own successful writing, speaking, and business coaching practice. In this straightforward how-to, he offers down-to-earth guidance on crafting an effective and meaningful online platform.
In Platform, you will learn how to:
- Extend your influence, monetize it, and build a sustainable career.
- Get noticed and start earning money in an increasingly noisy world.
- Learn to amplify, update, polish, and organize your content for success.
Platform goes behind the scenes into the world of social media success. You’ll discover what bestselling authors, public speakers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and other creatives are doing differently to gain contacts, connections, and followers and win customers in today’s crowded marketplace.
With proven strategies, easy-to-replicate formulas, and practical tips, this book makes it easier, less expensive, and more possible than ever to stand out from the crowd and launch a business.
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Liminal Thinking
- By: Dave Gray
- Narrator: Dan Woren
- Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.96(1905 ratings)
3.96(1905 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWhy do some people succeed at change while others fail? It’s the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You canWhy do some people succeed at change while others fail? It’s the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now? You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in, or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to start making changes, read this book.
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Things a Little Bird Told Me
- By: Biz Stone
- Narrator: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.93(3141 ratings)
3.93(3141 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDBiz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. Things a Little Bird Told Me From GQ‘s “Nerd of the Year” to one of Time‘sBiz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.... Read moreThings a Little Bird Told Me
From GQ‘s “Nerd of the Year” to one of Time‘s most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter-the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today. In Biz’s world:
Opportunity can be manufactured
Great work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinking
Creativity never runs out
Asking questions is free
Empathy is core to personal and global successIn this book, Biz also addresses failure, the value of vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture. Whether seeking behind-the-scenes stories, advice, or wisdom and principles from one of the most successful businessmen of the new century, Things a Little Bird Told Me will satisfy every reader.
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Dark Territory
- By: Fred Kaplan
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.9(2116 ratings)
3.9(2116 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAs cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Slate columnistAs cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.
Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the “information warfare” squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning–and, more often than people know, fighting–these wars for decades.
From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, an unknown past that shines an unsettling light on our future.
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The Wires of War
- By: Jacob Helberg
- Narrator: Jesse Einstein
- Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.83(309 ratings)
3.83(309 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDFrom the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of ChinaFrom the former news policy lead at Google, an “informative and often harrowing wake-up call” (Publishers Weekly) that explains the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the authoritarian regimes of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy.
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From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy.
On the front-end, we’re fighting to control the software–applications, news information, social media platforms, and more–of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we’re also engaged in a hidden back-end battle–largely with China–to control the internet’s hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks.
This tech-fueled war will shape the world’s balance of power for the coming century as autocracies exploit 21st-century methods to redivide the world into 20th-century-style spheres of influence. Without a firm partnership with the government, Silicon Valley is unable to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to sabotage it from Beijing to Moscow and Tehran. Helberg offers “unnervingly convincing evidence that time is running out in the ‘gray war’ with the enemies of freedom” (Kirkus Reviews) which could affect every meaningful aspect of our lives, including our economy, our infrastructure, our national security, and ultimately, our national sovereignty. -
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
- By: John Naughton
- Narrator: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Mobius
- Publish date: January 07, 2014
- Language: English
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3.76(180 ratings)
3.76(180 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.0 USDJohn Naughton is The Observer‘s “Networker” columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said of his writing, “[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the... Read more
John Naughton is The Observer‘s “Networker” columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times has said of his writing, “[it] draws on more than two decades of study to explain how the internet works and the challenges and opportunities it will offer to future generations,” and Cory Doctorow raved that “this is the kind of primer you want to slide under your boss’s door.” In From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, Naughton explores the living history of one of the most radically transformational technologies of all time.From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg is a clear-eyed history of one of the most central features of modern life: the internet. Once a technological novelty and now the very plumbing of the Information Age, the internet is something we have learned to take largely for granted. So, how exactly has our society become so dependent upon a utility it barely understands? And what does it say about us that this is the case?
While explaining in highly engaging language the way the internet works and how it got that way, technologist John Naughton has distilled the noisy chatter surrounding the technology’s relentless evolution into nine essential areas of understanding. In doing so, he affords readers deeper insight into the information economy and supplies the requisite knowledge to make better use of the technologies and networks around us, highlighting some of their fascinating and far-reaching implications along the way.
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Best Sellers in Spirituality
- By: Jenniffer Weigel
- Narrator: Jenniffer Weigel
- Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.67(2 ratings)
3.67(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis is a compilation of podcasts of a show by Jenniffer Weigel that is broadcast on WGN radio in Chicago, called I’m Spiritual, Dammit! Caroline MyssEcho BodineNeale Donald WalschEben AlexanderConcetta BertoldiDr. Raymond MoodyDr. JudithThis is a compilation of podcasts of a show by Jenniffer Weigel that is broadcast on WGN radio in Chicago, called I’m Spiritual, Dammit!
Caroline MyssEcho BodineNeale Donald WalschEben AlexanderConcetta BertoldiDr. Raymond MoodyDr. Judith OrloffDr. Mary NealMaureen HancockPam GroutRebecca RosenSonia Choquette
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In Real Life
- By: Nev Schulman
- Narrator: Nev Schulman
- Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 02, 2014
- Language: English
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3.63(948 ratings)
3.63(948 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDFrom the host of MTV’s #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide about how to connect with people authentically in today’s increasingly digital world. In Real Life:Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age As the host of the wildlyFrom the host of MTV’s #1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide about how to connect with people authentically in today’s increasingly digital world.
In Real Life:Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age
As the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online relationships to determine whether they are based on truth or fiction (spoiler: it’s almost always fiction).
Nev has become the Dr. Drew of online relationships. His clout in this area springs from his own experience with a deceptive online romance, about which he made a critically acclaimed 2010 documentary (also called Catfish). In that film Nev coined the term “catfish” to refer to someone who creates a false online persona to reel someone into a romantic relationship. The meme spread rapidly.
Now Nev brings his expertise to the page, sharing insider secrets about:
-what motivates catfish
-why people fall for catfish
-how you can avoid being deceived
-rules for dating — both online and off
-how to connect authentically with others over the internet
-how to turn an online relationship into a real-life relationship…and much, much more.
Peppered throughout with Nev’s personal stories, this book delves deeply into the complexities of online identity. Nev shows us how our digital lives are affecting our real lives, and provides essential advice about how we should all be living and loving in the era of social media.
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You Are What You Click
- By: Brian A. Primack
- Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Chronicle Books
- Publish date: September 14, 2021
- Language: English
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3.57(45 ratings)
3.57(45 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDAn empowering, forward-thinking solution for creating intentional and healthy social media habits from an expert on media, technology and health. Internationally acclaimed behavioral scientist and social media expert Brian Primack, MD, PhD, believesAn empowering, forward-thinking solution for creating intentional and healthy social media habits from an expert on media, technology and health.
Internationally acclaimed behavioral scientist and social media expert Brian Primack, MD, PhD, believes we do not need to swear off social media, delete all our online accounts, or give up our phones to live healthier, happier lives. In You Are What You Click, he offers a new approach to digital wellness, and a realist’s perspective on how what we consume online affects our well-being. In response, he presents a “social media pyramid” that personalizes our tech diet so we can enjoy a fruitful, balanced relationship with social media.
While many of us turn to social media looking for a sense of connection and comfort, the data show that it may paradoxically leave us feeling more alone and depressed. Drawing on over twenty years of original research, Dr. Primack explains the fascinating nuances of our relationship with social media, its impact on our mental health, and the dangers of social media using us instead of the other way around. He empowers us to take back control with a simple method: being more selective, positive, and creative with our lives online.
Dr. Primack introduces surprising strategies you can use right away to fine-tune your online experience and discover your definition of digital balance. Through short, actionable chapters, you’ll learn how to:
* Tailor your social media use to your personality.
* Select positive relationships over toxic ones.
* Overcome comparison syndrome and the fear of missing out.
* Fill your feed with meaningful, humorous, and uplifting content.
* Optimize your news intake and resist doomscrolling.
* Improve your sleep, create “tech holidays,” and more.With innovative strategies for managing technology, you’ll transform your relationship with tech and discover how to make social media work for you.
You Are What You Click offers a science-backed approach from a credentialed doctor: Dr. Brian Primack has an MD and a PhD in Education and Behavioral Science. Primack is the go-to expert on this topic. His work on the intersection of media and health has been cited nearly 6,000 times in peer-reviewed scholarly literature, and he has been featured in major media outlets across the world.
FOR WELLNESS READERS, PARENTS, AND ANYONE WHO USES SOCIAL MEDIA: Dropping off the digital map or deleting all our social media accounts isn’t the only option–and often isn’t something we feel ready to do. Rather than digital abstinence, with Primack’s 3-step plan, tech lovers will be able to understand how to regulate their online social platforms in healthier ways.
A BALANCED PERSPECTIVE ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN A POSITIVE LIGHT: Almost every book in this genre portrays technology in a negative or even scary way. With this book, readers will learn how to adjust and balance their presence online with a personalized plan they can use across all platforms, no matter what new social media app goes public next. Primack offers an empowering solution that is forward-thinking, and will continue to be relevant as technology becomes more immersed into our lives.
QUICK, PRACTICAL ADVICE:You Are What You Click is broken into short, actionable chapters that allow readers to understand the research, take action, and see results–perfect for short attention spans whittled down by Facebook and Instagram stories, Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok!
FOR FANS OF PERSONALITY BOOKS: Fans of books like The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery and The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles that Reveal How to Make Your Life Better will love the personality quiz and personalized solutions Primack offers for being selective, creative, and healthy with social media use.
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The Social Organism
- By: Oliver Luckett
- Narrator: Oliver Luckett
- Length: 9 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 15, 2016
- Language: English
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3.56(203 ratings)
3.56(203 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USD“A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world.” — Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and“A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world.” — Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company
From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media — how it works, how it’s changing human life, and how we can master it for good and for profit.
In barely a decade, social media has positioned itself at the center of twenty-first century life. The combined power of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and Vine have helped topple dictators and turned anonymous teenagers into celebrities overnight. In the social media age, ideas spread and morph through shared hashtags, photos, and videos, and the most compelling and emotive ones can transform public opinion in mere days and weeks, even attitudes and priorities that had persisted for decades.
How did this happen? The scope and pace of these changes have left traditional businesses — and their old-guard marketing gatekeepers — bewildered. We simply do not comprehend social media’s form, function, and possibilities. It’s time we did.
In The Social Organism, Luckett and Casey offer a revolutionary theory: social networks — to an astonishing degree–mimic the rules and functions of biological life. In sharing and replicating packets of information known as memes, the world’s social media users are facilitating an evolutionary process just like the transfer of genetic information in living things. Memes are the basic building blocks of our culture, our social DNA. To master social media — and to make online content that impacts the world — you must start with the Social Organism.
With the scope and ambition of The Second Machine Age and James Gleick’s The Information, The Social Organism is an indispensable guide for business leaders, marketing professionals, and anyone serious about understanding our digital world — a guide not just to social media, but to human life today and where it is headed next.
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How to Be Fine
- By: Jolenta Greenberg
- Narrator: Jolenta Greenberg
- Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 17, 2020
- Language: English
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3.54(2771 ratings)
3.54(2771 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDA humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast. In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and KristenA humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast.
In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer take a deep dive into a different self-help book, following its specific instructions, rules, and advice to the letter. From diet and productivity to decorating to social interactions, they try it all, record themselves along the way, then share what they’ve learned with their devoted and growing audience of fans who tune in.
Before they began their podcast, Jolenta wanted to believe the promises of self-help books, while Kristen was very much the skeptic. They embraced their differences of opinion, hoping they’d be good for laughs and downloads. But in the years since launching the By the Book, they’ve come to realize their show is about much more than humor. In fact, reading and following each book’s advice has actually changed and improved their lives. Thanks to the show, Kristen penned the Amish romance novel she’d always joked about writing, traveled back to her past lives, and she broached some difficult conversations with her husband about their marriage. Jolenta finally memorized her husband’s phone number, began tracking her finances, and fell in love with cutting clutter.
In How to Be Fine, Jolenta and Kristen synthesize the lessons and insights they’ve learned and share their experiences with everyone. How to Be Fine is a thoughtful look at the books and practices that have worked, real talk on those that didn’t, and a list of philosophies they want to see explored in-depth. The topics they cover include:
Getting off your device
Engaging in positive self-talk
Downsizing
Admitting you’re a liar
Meditation
Going outside
Getting in touch with your emotions
Seeing a therapistPart memoir, part prescriptive handbook, this honest, funny, and heartfelt guide is like a warm soul-baring conversation with your closest and smartest friends.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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How to Handle a Crowd
- By: Anika Gupta
- Narrator: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.51(31 ratings)
3.51(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDA guide to successful community moderation exploring everything from the trenches of Reddit to your neighborhood Facebook page. Don’t read the comments. Old advice, yet more relevant than ever. The tools we once hailed for their power toA guide to successful community moderation exploring everything from the trenches of Reddit to your neighborhood Facebook page.
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Don’t read the comments. Old advice, yet more relevant than ever. The tools we once hailed for their power to connect people and spark creativity can also be hotbeds of hate, harassment, and political division. Platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are under fire for either too much or too little moderation. Creating and maintaining healthy online communities isn’t easy.
Over the course of two years of graduate research at MIT, former tech journalist and current product manager Anika Gupta interviewed moderators who’d worked on the sidelines of gamer forums and in the quagmires of online news comments sections. She’s spoken with professional and volunteer moderators for communities like Pantsuit Nation, Nextdoor, World of Warcraft guilds, Reddit, and FetLife.
In How to Handle a Crowd, she shares what makes successful communities tick – and what you can learn from them about the delicate balance of community moderation. Topics include:
-Building creative communities in online spaces
-Bridging political division–and creating new alliances
-Encouraging freedom of speech
-Defining and eliminating hate and trolling
-Ensuring safety for all participants-
-Motivating community members to action
How to Handle a Crowd is the perfect book for anyone looking to take their small community group to the next level, start a career in online moderation, or tackle their own business’s comments section. -
Leonardo to the Internet
- By: Thomas J. Misa
- Length: 19 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 19, 2022
- Language: English
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3.5(71 ratings)
3.5(71 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDNow updated–A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa’s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations haveNow updated–A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society.
Historian Thomas J. Misa’s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped–and have been shaped by–the cultures in which they
arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls “the question of technology.”In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. Each chapter has been honed to relate to contemporary concerns.
Globalization, Misa argues, looks differently considering today’s virulent nationalism, cultural chauvinism, and trade wars. A new chapter focuses on the digital age from 1990 to 2016. The book also examines how today’s unsustainable
energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability and takes a look at the coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of Wuhan, China’s high tech district.A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.
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Shame Nation
- By: Sue Scheff
- Narrator: Erin Bennett
- Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.46(236 ratings)
3.46(236 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn today’s digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away. A rogue tweet can bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage. Shame Nation is the firstIn today’s digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away.
A rogue tweet can bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage.
Shame Nation is the first book to both explore the fascinating phenomenon of online shaming and offer practical guidance and inspiring advice on how to prevent and protect against cyber blunders and faceless bullies. Author and acclaimed Internet safety expert Sue Scheff unveils all sides of an issue that is only becoming more relevant day by day while drawing from the expertise of other top professionals spanning fields including law, psychology, and reputation management.
From damning screenshots to revenge porn, Shame Nation shines a light on the rising trend of online shame culture and empowers readers to take charge of their digital lives.
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
- By: Justin E. H. Smith
- Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 22, 2022
- Language: English
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3.2(172 ratings)
3.2(172 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it–and explains why they have died today Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modernAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it–and explains why they have died today
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from
the ancient to the modern world–uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet’s
continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology.Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the “internet” has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience,
artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet’s organic structure and
development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature.Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.
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Technology vs. Truth
- By: Scientific American
- Narrator: Lloyd James
- Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDIn the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this audiobook, we examine the intersectionIn the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this audiobook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth, and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the bias inherent in algorithms, and more.
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Sideways: The Life of Wine (The Podcast), Vol. 1
- By: Youssef Mourra
- Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDRex Pickett, author of the book Sideways (and adapted into an Oscar-, BAFTA-, and Golden Globe-winning movie) talks to Youssef Mourra about his life in wine, movies, screenplays, and books. This collection includes the followingRex Pickett, author of the book Sideways (and adapted into an Oscar-, BAFTA-, and Golden Globe-winning movie) talks to Youssef Mourra about his life in wine, movies, screenplays, and books.
This collection includes the following episodes:
“Introducing Rex Pickett, Author of Sideways””Introducing Sideways: The Life of Wine””The Pinot Noir and the Rose””Why Pinot Noir””Wine Tasting””An Update on All Things Sideways and Rex””The Pinot Gris and the Chardonnay””The Enduring Appeal of Sideways””A Different Take on Food and Wine Pairings””The Aging and the Vintage Wine””No Fucking Merlot””Chile and Chilean Wine””Wine Snobbery””Newsflash 1 – Sideways: The Play in Spain Falls Mainly on the Payne?””Sideways: The Musical””Miles and Jack””The Worst Things about Men””Why Rex Writes””Sideways: The Movie Part I””Sideways: The Movie Part II””Sideways: The Movie Part III””Sideways: The Movie Part IV”
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RISK!
- Narrator: Kevin Allison
- Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 17, 2018
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDA “fascinating” (MetroSource) collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us. Collecting the most celebrated stories from theA “fascinating” (MetroSource) collection of uncensored, confessional, and at times outrageously funny essays about coming of age, coming out, and the wildest experiences that define us.
Collecting the most celebrated stories from the hit podcast RISK!, along with all-new true tales about explosive secrets and off-the-wall adventures, this book paints a spellbinding portrait of the transformational moments we experience in life but rarely talk about. No topics are off-limits in RISK!, no memories too revealing to share. From accidentally harboring a teen fugitive to being poisoned while tripping on LSD in the Mayan ruins, these stories transport readers into uncharted territory and show how your life can change when you take an extraordinary leap.
In these jaw-dropping stories, edited and introduced by RISK! host Kevin Allison, writers reveal how they pushed drugs for a Mexican cartel only to end up kidnapped and nearly killed, how they joined a terrifying male-empowerment cult and fought desperately for a way out, how they struggled with pregnancy complications and found a hero where they least expected it, and so much more. A lifelong construction worker shares the intimate details of transitioning to being a woman, a bestselling author discusses how he assumed the identity of his babysitter online in a social experiment gone awry, and a beloved comedian discusses how a blow job from a prostitute changed his life. By turns cautionary and inspiring, RISK! presents an extraordinary panorama of the breadth of human experience and a stunning tribute to the power of the truth to set us free.
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Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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