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Exploring jobs in the gig economyAlaimo, Kara
Summary: "In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls--from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought--whether you're constantly connected or have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 ALATobin, Paul
Summary: "Layne Green is a social media sensation of a cook. He's selected to compete on a reality TV show called Voyage de Gourmet - a globe-trotting foodie adventure. However, his partner is his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, someone that he really wronged with some of his posts. Can the two find forgiveness, flavor, and themselves on this journey?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maverick for Mad Cave Studios, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TOBHorwitz, Jeff
Summary: "A behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 HORReeve, Elle
Summary: "This tour de force of investigative journalism--in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized--depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the right and left spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Phoebe Townsend created her blog, The Circle in the Square, as a place for her research into sex, and now she answers other teens' questions while trying to stay anonymous, but as the number of her followers rises, Phoebe finds herself exposed to the darker side of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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Summary: "Describes gig jobs in social media. Explores the history of gig jobs in social media, what it is like to work gig jobs in social media, the pros and cons of gig work compared to a traditional career, and the future of gig work in social media"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BrightPoint Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 BUCAkasaka, Aka
Summary: "Will Kaguya and Miyuki find a way to see each other sooner rather than later over summer vacation? And is tweeting really an effective way to communicate with your crush? Then, Kaguya's overprotective staff try to prevent her from going to the fireworks festival with the rest of the student council. Miyuki and Kaguya both try to find a way to enroll in the same elective class. And someone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KAGChayka, Kyle
Summary: "From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: "American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation-the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth-and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others. It's endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system, schools, hospitals, workplaces,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320.73 MCQCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9730 MCQCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9730 MCQCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol McQuadeWesley, Jamie
Summary: "After accidentally going viral on social media, a cupcake-baking football player gets assistance from a social media maven-and his best friend's little sister-to help promote his new bakery. August Hodges was supposed to be the silent partner in Sugar Blitz Cupcakes. Emphasis on silent. That is until his impromptu feminist rant about how women bakers are the backbone of the industry and baking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WESSummary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PORMezrich, Ben
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn't want you to read. Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time--Elon Musk--and the company that represents our culture's dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.872 MEZFowler, Jenny Li
Summary: "Organizations and institutions focused on community building have a built-in group of ambassadors who embrace their message and vision. Social media managers have a unique opportunity to lean into this loyalty by creating a social presence informed by this digital engagement. In Organic Social Media, Jenny Li Fowler outlines the important steps that social media managers need to take to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kogan Page Limited 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 FOWWeingarten, Lynn
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sasha, desperate to save her best friend Xavier from more heartache, creates a social media trap for his ex-girlfriend with the hopes of exposing her cheating ways, but Sasha's plan takes a dangerous turn that dramatically changes the course of everyone's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEIGalarza, Josh
Summary: Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal--and his deepest insecurities--online.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GALCorrigan, Eireann
Summary: Shea Davison is a teen-aged TikTok star with nearly a million followers, but she is being followed by Nora, who is convinced that she and Shea are fated to be best friends--even if she has to kidnap Shea to make it a reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CORKanakia, Naomi
Summary: "Tara just wants to be treated like any other girl at Ainsley Academy. That is, judged on her merits--not on her transness. But there's no road map for being the first trans girl at an all-girls school. And when she tries to join the Sibyls, an old-fashioned Ainsley sisterhood complete with code names and special privileges, she's thrust into the center of a larger argument about what girlhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KANYang, Kelly
Summary: Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC YANMurphy, Monica
Summary: Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn’t talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett’s dad hired Tate Ramsey, former lead singer of the band Five Car Pileup, who hasn’t been popular for years. Tate, after years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUROliver, Ben
Summary: A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLIBrill, Steven
Summary: "As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here—and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.None of this—conspiracy theories embraced, expertise ridiculed, empirical evidence ignored—has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BRITaylor, Justin
Summary: "A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV drama that catapulted him to teenage fame David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit 90s teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, part-time alcoholic, and occasional videogame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYConklin, Melanie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sophie attempts to get her best friend back by infiltrating a group of bullies and agreeing to a series of dangerous social media dares.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CONBenen, Steve
Summary: "For as long as historical records have existed, people in positions of authority have tried to rewrite history to suit their purposes. The pattern has become tragically familiar: dictatorial powers use their editing pens to create myths, spread propaganda, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes. Today, as Republican politics becomes increasingly radicalized, it's not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024