Books like Rewire by Ethan Zuckerman

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

Jaron Lanier argues that social media erodes autonomy, truth, and dignity, urging readers to delete their accounts and imagine a more humane digital future.

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think explains how the ability to collect, store, and analyze large volumes of information is reshaping society, technology, and decision‑making.

Bruce Schneier’s investigative analysis explores the growth of Mass surveillance in the United States, examining how data collection, electronic surveillance, and national security practices shape privacy and social control.

Eli Pariser explains how the rise of personalization on the Web limits the information we consume, turning search engines into invisible filters that shape our news, opinions, and online experiences.

A nonfiction examination of how the Internet reshapes social interaction, business, and technology.

Safiya Umoja Noble exposes how search engine algorithms embed and amplify sexist and racist biases, especially against women of color, revealing a digital environment that privileges whiteness and marginalizes people of color.

Evgeny Morozov explores how digital technology reshapes society, questioning the delegation of political, cultural, and moral responsibilities to algorithms and the Internet.

Astra Taylor examines how the Internet perpetuates real‑world inequalities, from unequal attention and compensation to privacy erosion, and proposes actionable reforms for a more equitable digital society.

Clive Thompson argues that the Internet and digital tools are making us smarter, better connected, and fostering new ways of learning and collaboration.

"Spreadable Media" maps fundamental changes taking place in the contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution. This book challenges some of the prevailing frameworks used to describe contemporary media.

Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals.

A concise, interdisciplinary guide that equips readers to critically assess social media’s evolving practices, platforms, and cultural influence across political, economic, and visual dimensions.