Social Media and the Internet

Books about the social and psychological impacts of social media and the internet.

Updated November 25, 2025
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This Is for Everyone : The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Paper Book
A Sunday Times Bestseller The inventor of the World Wide Web explores his vision's promise--and how it can be redeemed for the future. Perhaps the most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of technologist....
Enshittification : Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
Doctorow, Cory.
Paper Book
Enshittification: it's not just you--the internet sucks now. Here's why, and here's how we can disenshittify it. We're living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit...
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Wynn-Williams, Sarah
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestseller A 2025 best book of the year so far by The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and more "Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to...
Irresistible : the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us hooked
Alter, Adam L.
Paper Book
"One of the most mesmerizing and important books I've read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity." --Adam Grant, New York Times...
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Fisher, Max
Paper Book
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism From a New York Times investigative reporter, this "authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media" (New York Times Book Review)  <...
A social media survival guide : how to use the most popular platforms and protec
Karle, Melody A., 1979-
Paper Book
The every person's guide to social media... how to use it and what never to do. Are you trying to figure out how to safely use social media but finding yourself struggling? Here's a book specifically designed to help regular people figure out social media platforms.

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