Stone, Biz.

Summary: "Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STONE, BIZ STO

Schiffer, Zoë

Summary: "When Elon Musk took over Twitter, two versions of reality emerged. In one, he was a free-speech crusader, a fearless visionary who could grab back power from Twitter's entitled workforce, motivate them to get "extremely hardcore," and multiply Twitter's profit and potential by orders of magnitude. In the other reality, there was the truth. Pulled from hundreds of hours of inside interviews...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2024

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Wagner, Kurt

Summary: "In battle for the Bird, Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes the reader inside Twitter's everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world's most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey's triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @realDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024

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Brock, André L.

Summary: An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2019

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Mattern, Joanne

Summary: This title examines Instagram, the photo and video sharing website.Readers will learn about company history and development, how Instagram operates, issues the company faces such as inappropriate content, and its impact on society.Key components such as filters, Instagram Direct, and Boomerang are also explored.Color photos accompany easy-to-read, compelling text.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 775 MAT

Jones, Feminista

Summary: "A treatise of Black women's transformative influence in media, entertainment, and politics, and why this intersectional movement building, especially on Twitter, is essential to the resistance In Reclaiming Our Space, social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2019

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Aschoff, Nicole Marie

Summary: "The smartphone is the defining commodity of the twenty-first century, pitting ordinary peoples' desire for entertainment, connection, and justice against government and corporate drives for control and profit"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020

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Green, Sara

Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Mark Zuckerberg. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2015

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McNamee, Roger

Summary: "If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor,but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. Still a large...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 MCN

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Weil, Jamie.

Summary: Mark Zuckerberg's story is an interesting one: who knew that a quiet, code-writing nerd would be the creator of what we call social media, the Chairman and CEO of Facebook Inc., and the youngest self-made billionaire.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ZUC