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Schick, Nina

Summary: "In a world of deepfakes, it will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what isn't. As advances in artificial intelligence, video creation, and online trolling continue, deepfakes pose not only a real threat to democracy -- they threaten to take voter manipulation to unprecedented new heights. This crisis of misinformation which we now face has since been dubbed the "Infocalypse." In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 SCH

Summary: Is technology changing our concept of group behavior? Are people, when acting en masse, inevitably destructive or surprisingly intelligent? In this TEDTalk, James Surowiecki addresses those questions by pinpointing the moment in which social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering. Surowiecki - a New Yorker finance writer and the author of The Wisdom of Crowds - examines the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: "The balance of nature" is a widely-held belief that ecosystems function cooperatively rather than hierarchically, gradually adjusting for change - a concept that was co-opted by early computer scientists and hippies alike. This program examines that concept and how its mechanistic but egalitarian philosophy came to permeate the zeitgeist of the mid-20th century, only to be debunked later on as...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Harris, Duchess

Summary: These days it's become easier than ever to customize social media feeds to include only information you think is relevant to your interests. But is that necessarily a positive development? Your Personalized Internet uncovers the problematic aspects of online customization, including the dangers of echo chambers and filter bubbles and the loss of privacy that can result from companies sharing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J302.231 HAR

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