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41) The Creepy Line
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook, and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle and powerful manner in which they do it. Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, the film examines what is at risk when these tech titans have free reign to utilize the public's most private and personal data.
43) Followers
Author
Language
English
Description
Orla Cadden dreams of literary success, but she's stuck writing about movie-star hookups and influence yoga moves. Orla has no idea how to change her life until her new roommate, Floss - a striving, wannabe A-lister-comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they so desperately crave. But it's only when Orla and Floss abandon all pretence of ethics that social media responds with the most terrifying feedback of all: overwhelming...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"If animals could speak (and text and post selfies, and review items on Amazon), what would they say? Find out in this hilarious collection of imagined digital encounters, based on real animal intel and facts." -- Amazon.com.
Explores what animals from all over the planet might share with their friends through social media, including their unique characteristics, habits, and behaviors.
45) The affinities
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another -- in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever.
46) The Candyman
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It was one of 640 million closed groups on Facebook. Hiding behind the anonymity, the creator of child pornography group Loli Candy and its 7,000 members hid their activities on Facebook and Whatsapp - the dissemination of horrifying images of abuse. While they were eventually bought to justice many more thrive.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
By looking at lessons from Cold War history, George Orwell's 1984 and other sources, host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a not-for-profit worldwide web shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With lessons from the fight against terrorism in Iraq to the rise of an internet-powered surveillance state in China, host Niall Ferguson shows how our democracies are under threat from forces that exploit the social networks we invented.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
They may look like ordinary posts of exotic pets for sale on social media. But they are feeding a growing trade in illegal and endangered animals in Malaysia and beyond. This criminal industry is worth billions and is jeopardising attempts to protect endangered species.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sextortion was invented by one woman in the Philippines, Maria Caparas. She turned the idea of making friends online and recording explicit video chats into a profitable blackmail and extortion scam that could not exist without social media. She now runs a mini empire seemingly beyond the reach of authorities, that has led to many suicides.
51) Scattering CJ
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Three years after witnessing the violent suicide of her oldest son CJ, Hallie Twomey was determined to retake ownership of his memory as the charismatic, funny and generous soul she knew. In a moment of desperate inspiration, she put a call out to the world on Facebook: would a handful of sympathetic travelers help fulfill her son's ambition to see all the corners of the Earth by scattering some of his ashes in a place of beauty or special meaning...
52) Dark Web
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (186 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
There's a dark side to the internet, and you probably don't even know it exists. Look behind the positive veneer of social media, communication apps and platforms that have made our lives easier and more connected, and you'll find criminals using the same apps and platforms to run illicit and dangerous activities. Sextortion syndicates target victims globally through social media. Illegal wildlife trades thrive on social consumer marketplaces. Digital...
53) Sexy Baby
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
These days, sex doesn't just sell, it saturates our culture. In the age of runaway social media and "sexting," raunchy rap songs on pop radio and hardcore pornography at the click of a mouse-what's it like to be a woman? A girl? A teenage boy? Their parents? In this feature documentary, the directors follow a trio of characters to reveal the toll all this titillation is taking on America and forces viewers to get comfortable having the uncomfortable...
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Drugs, guns, counterfeit documents and much more are sold on dark web marketplaces that run on anonymous browsers and using cryptocurrency. AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace, transacting over US$800,000 in a day enabling its founder to live a luxury lifestyle in anonymity, until international law enforcement caught up with him.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company's failure to protect millions of users' data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This documentary investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (165 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking new series hosted by Niall Ferguson and based on his bestselling book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson visits network theorists, social scientists and data analysts to explore the history of social networks.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With the help of experts in network theory, Host Niall Ferguson untangles important issues including why social media networks polarize us, why some ideas go viral and why truth itself is at a disadvantage.
Author
Series
Modern love volume 2
Language
English
Description
One minute, Katrina King's enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she's painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn't the man she's hungry for . . .With the internet on the hunt for #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh...
Author
Language
English
Description
Using the AASL Standards Framework for Learners, the Create and Share: Thinking Digitally series provides younger readers with the necessary tools to successfully and safely navigate the digital world. In Respecting Others Online, readers learn the importance of being respectful online. Activities throughout the book prompt students to think more deeply, be creative, share information and resources, and grow their knowledge. Book includes a table...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Carnegie Hill, comes Jonathan Vatner's The Bridesmaids Union, a captivating novel of family, Facebook groups, and bridesmaids gone rogue. Iris Hagarty has just about had it with weddings. After witnessing one too many meltdowns over flower arrangements, she takes to the internet to vent about the trials and tribulations of being a bridesmaid to her usually reasonable friends-turned-bridezillas. She finds she is not alone, and soon...
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