Books like Programmed for Popularity by Laurie Lykken

The Shallows explores how computer‑delivered information reshapes human cognition, weaving Marshall McLuhan, communication history, and neuroscience into a comprehensive analysis of the digital age's mental impact.

Digital Minimalism shows how reducing everyday technology use can improve well‑being, offering a practical strategy to reclaim free time and focus on meaningful activities.

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.

In "How to Be Popular," Steph follows a mysterious guide to join the high‑school elite, but she quickly learns that true popularity is harder to maintain than the hype suggests.

A group of four friends from sixth grade find themselves in a seventh-grade school where they have to face bullies, politics, and the challenges of friendship as they try to maintain their misfit status.

"From one of the world's leading experts in cyberpsychology--a discipline that combines psychology, forensics, and technology--comes a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behavior. In the first book of its kind, Mary Aiken applies her expertise in cyber-behavioral analysis to a range of subjects, including criminal activity on the Deep Web and Darknet; deviant behavior; Internet addictions; the impact of technology on the developing child; teenagers and the Web; cyber-romance and cyber-friendships; cyberchondria; the future of artificial intelligence; and the positive effects on our digital selves, such as online altruism"--

What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd's conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated. - Publisher.

A shy high‑schooler discovers that a pop‑culture influenced friendship strategy can dramatically boost her social standing – but the one boy she really likes remains stubbornly distant.

In a competitive private high school, classroom rival Nell and Jackson become entwined in an intense relationship that could cost them more than an academic victory.

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.

Road trip adventure with two sisters as they travel across the USA, embracing new experiences and catching up with friends and family.

When Carly and Sam land a lucrative sneaker campaign on iCarly, they embark on a dream shopping spree—only to discover the shoes hide a serious flaw that threatens the show and its loyal fanbase.

Lauren is trying to fit in and make friends at Canterwood Crest Academy, the boarding school she’s attending.