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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: #Republic
    sub title: divided democracy in the age of social media
  title info:
    title: Hashtag republic
  title info:
    title: Republic
    sub title: divided democracy in the age of social media
  name:
    name part: Sunstein, Cass R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: "As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic. In this revealing book, Cass Sunstein, the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, shows how today's Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism--and what can be done about it. Thoroughly rethinking the critical relationship between democracy and the Internet, Sunstein describes how the online world creates "cybercascades," exploits "confirmation bias," and assists "polarization entrepreneurs." And he explains why online fragmentation endangers the shared conversations, experiences, and understandings that are the lifeblood of democracy. In response, Sunstein proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation. These changes would get us out of our information cocoons by increasing the frequency of unchosen, unplanned encounters and exposing us to people, places, things, and ideas that we would never have picked for our Twitter feed. #Republic need not be an ironic term. As Sunstein shows, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies most need."--
  table of contents: The daily me -- An analogy and an ideal -- Polarization -- Cybercascades -- Social glue and spreading information -- Citizens -- What's regulation? : a plea -- Freedom of speech -- Proposals -- Terrorism.com -- #Republic.
  note: Cass R. Sunstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social media
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information society
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Polarization (Social sciences)
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Ideologies
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Freedom & Security
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Censorship
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Demokratische Bewegung
  subject:
    topic: Social Media
  subject:
    topic: Informationsgesellschaft
  subject:
    topic: Politische Beteiligung
  subject:
    topic: 05.20 communication and society
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
  classification: HM851 .S869 2017
  classification: 303.48/33
  classification: POL007000 POL035000 POL039000 POL028000
  identifier: 9780691175515
  identifier: 0691175519
  identifier: 2016038668
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161207
    record change date: 20180718090122.0
    record identifier: in00004035896
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng