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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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 : cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism
Wynn-Williams, Sarah
#1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AP, THE ECONOMIST, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! "Careless...
Irresistible : the rise of addictive technology and the business of keeping us h
Alter, Adam L., 1980-
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...
Internet Con : How to Seize the Means of Computation.
Doctorow, Cory.
Ebook
Digital madness : how social media is driving our mental health crisis--and how
Kardaras, Nicholas, 1964-
Paper Book
From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we've become mad for our devices as our devices are driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology's damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates--and offers a way out....
The chaos machine : the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and o
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.
Zucked : waking up to the Facebook catastrophe /
McNamee, Roger.
Paper Book
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...
Writing on the wall : social media, the first 2,000 years /
Standage, Tom
Paper Book
Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new book, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen used...

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