Outrage machine: How tech amplifies discontent, disrupts democracy and what we can do about it

Recommended by: Keval Kumar

Content:

PART I: Making the Machine
Chapter 1: Empathy Machine
Chapter 2: The Feed
Chapter 3: The Overwhelming Present
Chapter 4: The Origin of Our Addictions
Chapter 5: Pushing the Trigger
PART II: Powering the Machine
Chapter 6: Black and Blue, White and Gold
Chapter 7: The Engagement Escalator
Chapter 8: The Apple of Discord
Chapter 9: Trigger - Chain
Chapter 10: Algorithms
Chapter 11: Intuitions and the Internet
Chapter 12: The Worst Room
Chapter 13: Trauma, Processing, and Cancellation
Chapter 14: The Waves of Moral Norms
Chapter 15: The Dark Valley
PART III: History of the Machine
Chapter 16: The Ancient History of Virality
Chapter 17: The First Twitter Thread
Chapter 18: American Outrage
Chapter 19: How Advertising Created Newspapers
Chapter 20: The Dark Valley of Radio
Chapter 21: Television, Chaos, and the Collective
PART IV: The Cogs in the Machine
Chapter 22: How We Learn the Truth
Chapter 23: Trust and Truth
Chapter 24: Freedom of Speech vs. Defense of Truth
PART V: Rewiring the Machine
Chapter 25: The Parable of the Island
Chapter 26: What's at Stake
Chapter 27: The Machine Called Democracy
Chapter 28: Where Should We Place Our Outrage?
Chapter 29: What You Can Do
Chapter 30: Coda