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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 23-07-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 557 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media....

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    • The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy
    • By: Eric Beecher
    • Narrated by: Eric Beecher
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls—from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk—and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

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    • The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Noam Chomsky
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy - one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled....

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    • Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
    • By: Tom Standage
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 15-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication....

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 25-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • My Conversations with the World's Most Evil Men
    • By: Christopher Berry-Dee
    • Narrated by: Geoff Barham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • We've all heard so much about the killers who grab the front pages, the ones whose crimes are so appalling that they exert a strange fascination on many people....

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    • 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
    • By: Karen Arrington
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Channel your Black-girl magic: If you're feeling stuck or trapped by other people's expectations of what you can achieve, it's time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you....

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    • Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing, Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
    • By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy....

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    • How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World—and What We Can Do
    • By: Steven Brill
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A best-selling author documents how facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in “alternative facts” and conspiracy theories have destroyed trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts....

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    • Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters
    • By: Helen Smith PhD
    • Narrated by: Susan Boyce
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage....

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    • Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
    • By: Nora Ephron
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays - tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit - now available in one audiobook for the first time....

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    • Orientations, Objects, Others
    • By: Sara Ahmed
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time.

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