Antisocial Media
How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Reviews and Awards
"Siva Vaidhyanathan's Antisocial Media ... is the best tech-sceptic book of the year, by an academic who writes like a human. Even better, Vaidhyanathan's insights into the destructive power of Facebook are truly global, taking in Modi's India and Duterte's Philippines." - Helen Lewis, Books of the Year 2018, New Statesman
"Vaidhyanathan writes with conviction and a deep sense of history. His research is sharp and diverse." - Jinoy Jose P, The Hindu Business Line
"An excellent critique" - John Naughton, The Observer
"What distinguishes Vaidhyanathan's book from others is not only the depth of his research, but the fact that Facebook in placed into a larger social, historical and political context, thus delivering a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the company over the past years." - Felix Simon, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"This thoroughly researched and persuasively argued account of social media's noxious effects on the very fabric of society is the first study of its kind: a trenchant analysis of Facebook's unwholesome side effects. It needed saying, and it's supremely well said." - Juanita Coulson, The Lady
"[an] elegant new book" - Des Freedman, openDemocracy
"The book is of great value to both students of media-related disciplines and to the general public. Written in a commendably accessible style and largely free of academic jargon, it is likely to appeal to (and benefit) anyone willing to better understand the world in which we are deeply immersed a social-mediatised world." - LSE Review of Books