Books like Irresistible by Adam L. Alter

Teen gamer Anda navigates friendship, ethics, and global inequality when her virtual ally turns out to be a poor Chinese gold farmer, exploring the blurred line between online play and real‑world livelihoods.

The App Generation examines how today’s digitally immersed youth shape and are shaped by apps, revealing both their empowering possibilities and their risks to identity, relationships, and creativity.

Explores how America’s common vices—smoking, alcohol, gambling, sex, and drug use—evolved from personal habits into a vast, profitable social industry that reshaped public morality and policy.

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for -- and sacrificing -- in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude. - Publisher.

"Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture - the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a global context? This edited collection considers the Korean Wave in a global digital age and addresses the social, cultural and political implications in their complexity and paradox within the contexts of global inequalities and uneven power structures. The emerging consequences at multiple levels - both macro structures and micro processes that influence media production, distribution, representation and consumption - deserve to be analyzed and explored fully in an increasingly global media environment. This book argues for the Korean Wave's double capacity in the creation of new and complex spaces of identity that are both enabling and disabling cultural diversity in a digital cosmopolitan world. The Korean Wave combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies in an up-to-date and accessible volume ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of Media and Communications, Cultural Studies, Korean Studies and Asian Studies"--

Using surveys and interviews from thirteen college campuses, Donna Freitas explores how social media shapes young adults’ anxieties and hopes, revealing that their main concern is not self‑obsession but the pursuit of happiness.

122 pages : 23 cm