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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From a formidably gifted writer (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms the portal, where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus...
3) Need
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this exploration of the dark side of social media, and government control and manipulation, the teenagers in a small town are drawn deeper and deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need--regardless of the consequences"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis. Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or externalizing memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your...
5) Look
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While falling in love with the mysterious Cass, Lulu sheds her carefully crafted social media persona and takes ownership of who she is in this feminist, queer coming-of-age story--
6) Version zero
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Max, a data whiz at the social media company Wren, has gotten a firsthand glimpse of the dark side of big tech. When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, he's fired...then black-balled across Silicon Valley. With time on his hands and revenge on his mind, Max and his longtime friend (and secretly the love of his life) Akiko, decide to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have...
8) Epic fail
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's been two years since Jared's best friends Kenzie and Bree went to a party where Jared's older brother, Seth, and his friends were competing to see who could have sex with the most underage girls. When an image of Kenzie from that evening surfaces on social media, Jared decides he must stand up against his bullying older brother and help his friend bring the truth that she was sexually assaulted to light. However, digging up an old trauma might...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education/Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Teens explore the history of the social media boom from a journalistic viewpoint to understand the technological advancements that led to widespread internet use and the impact social media has on the spread of information--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After arriving on a remote island to star in a reality television show, ten teen influencers find themselves caught in a deadly game, and as they receive threatening messages from a mysterious Sponsor, the influencers must figure out who is trying to cancel them before it is too late.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands-including Nike, Toyota, and Motorola-Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty, and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases.These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko--a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore--who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her priviledge, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
13) Posted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr., an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Children can master a new digital talent--creating blogs, vlogs, and podcasts--in 10 easy lessons! Each stage is fully illustrated with step-by-step illustrations and photographs, so children can learn 10 key skills to develop and promote an exciting new online blog or vlog. Along with professional tips and practical techniques, this book will help young readers become expert bloggers in no time. From planning what to share with the world to learning...
15) Influence
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ten teen influencers arrive on Unknown Island expecting to find a tropical paradise, but instead they discover a deserted resort, poisonous snakes, and secrets worth killing for.
Unknown Island: white sand beaches, turquoise seas, and luxury accommodations. It is invite only, no one over twenty-one allowed, and it's absolutely free. Who wouldn't want to go? The whole world is watching as the resort opens its doors to the First Ten, the ten elite...
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this funny and poignant novel, two strangers learn that their soul mate might be both as close as breath and as distant as a star, from British Fantasy Award recipient Sarah Lotz. Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She's given up on finding love, but that's fine. There's always Tinder. Nick thinks he has nothing: his writing career has stalled after early promise...
18) Expelled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expelled over The Photo that was posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster, seventeen, is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
English professor and ex-spy Cameron Winter confronts a big tech billionaire to solve the suspicious suicide of a former student--
The world of Big Tech is full of eccentric characters, but shamanic billionaire Gerald Byrne may be the strangest of the bunch. The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Byrne is known for speaking with vague profundity and for dabbling in esoteric spiritual practices; he wears his hair in a long black ponytail...
20) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ron's Gone Wrong is a computer-animated film set in a world where it's the norm to have B-Bots, digitally connected robot companions. Barney is a shy middle-schooler who is the last one in his city to finally get Ron, his B-Bot. Unfortunately, his Best Friend Out of the Box becomes a major pain, malfunctioning on a regular basis. Not knowing what else to do, Barney sets out to teach Ron about social cues and what it means to be a human.
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