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This title begins by explaining what COVID-19 is, what social distancing is, what "flattening the curve" means, and how they're all related. It also gives kids fun ways to connect with their friends, extended family members, and neighbors who they likely miss seeing in person.
3) Followers
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Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
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"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating...
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Turning 12 1/2 shouldn't be the most exciting birthday in the world. It's a half birthday after all. But Harper is thrilled because she is getting the biggest gift of all: her parent's approval to finally get social media accounts. Except when she goes to post her first photo, there is a filter she has never heard of before. One that shows you what you will look like when you are older. Curious, Harper clicks on it...but ends up flash forwarding in...
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"Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
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"A social media influencer is shipped off to a digital detox summer camp in this funny coming-of-age story"--
When Sunny Song accidentally films a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate), she is shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants any shot at growing her social media platform this summer, she'll need to find a way back online. Thanks...
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Isa Brixton and her new friend Alexa, who is a skilled photographer, start an Instagram account featuring portraits of Isa in the crumbling mansion she now calls home, and soon the rising numbers of Isa's followers online and at school match the growing darkness in her personality.
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Seventeen-year-old nurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.
13) How to disappear
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Introverted high school student, Vicky Decker, invents a social life on social media.
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On her way home from work, twenty-three-year-old April May comes across a giant sculpture that looks like a cross between a Transformer and a samurai. She calls a friend and they take a video that quickly goes viral on YouTube. April becomes an internet star, especially when dozens of these beings are found all over the world. She becomes addicted to her new-found celebrity which causes damage to her relationships. Explores how our culture deals with...
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Today, more people than ever before are participating in the online world. Its relatively simple for anyone to create their own Web sites and blogs, post music and videos online, provide feedback on the sites they visit, and even help edit online encyclopedias. This book provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the vast world of user-generated information found online.
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Savvy though they may be, teens are still plagued by the same specters that haunt all social media users, such as trolls and bullies, privacy issues, and fake news. Arm readers with the knowledge, tools, and critical perspective they need to navigate the tricky world of social media and educate others about how to do so in an informed, intelligent way.
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"A leading data visualization expert explores the negative--and positive--influences that charts have on our perception of truth. We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous--and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate...