The most popular social media books

Books about social media look at lives lived online. Influencers, trolls, viral fame and the gap between the profile and the person drive sharp novels and thrillers. Essays and reporting here ask what constant connection is doing to attention, friendship and truth.

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Accountable
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Accountable

Dashka Slater

Published 2023

480 pages

Alone Together
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Alone Together

Sherry Turkle

2011 · 2017 edition

400 pages

City of Likes
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City of Likes

Jenny Mollen

Published 2022

266 pages

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212

Alafair Burke

Published 2010

368 pages

iGen
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iGen

Jean M. Twenge, Джин М. Твенге

2017 · 2018 edition

352 pages

Groundswell
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Groundswell

Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff

Published 2008

286 pages

Linked
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Linked

Albert-László Barabási

2002 · 2014 edition

304 pages

Awkward
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Awkward

Marni Bates

2011 · 2012 edition

239 pages

Predator
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Predator

Terri Blackstock

Published 2010

336 pages

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Sarah Ockler

Published 2014

416 pages