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We use social tribalism from the bottom up and the top down. He media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, introduces new apps and bots to help readers avoid as Chris Bail explains, it functions more like a prism misperceptions and engage in better conversations that distorts our identities, empowers status-seeking with the other side. Finally, he explores what the extremists, and renders moderates all but invisible. virtual public square might look like if we could Breaking the Social Media Prism challenges common hit “reset” and redesign social media from scratch myths about echo chambers, foreign misinformation through a first-of-its-kind experiment on a new social campaigns, and radicalizing algorithms, revealing media platform built for scientific research. that the solution to political tribalism lies deep inside ourselves. Providing data-driven recommendations for strength- ening our social media connections, Breaking the Drawing on innovative online experiments and Social Media Prism shows how to combat online in-depth interviews with social media users from polarization without deleting our accounts. across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can Chris Bail is professor of sociology and public policy make us more polarized, not less. Bail takes you at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization inside the minds of online extremists through vivid Lab. He is the author of Terrified: How Anti-Muslim narratives that trace their lives on the platforms and Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream (Princeton). off—detailing how they dominate public discourse at Website chrisbail.net Twitter @chris_bail the expense of the moderate majority. 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The Great Guide is an living well, on topics ranging from the meaning of engaging and eye-opening account of how Hume’s success and the value of travel to friendship, facing thought should serve as the basis for a complete death, identity, and the importance of leisure. This approach to life. book shows how life is far richer with Hume as your guide. In this enthralling book, Julian Baggini masterfully interweaves biography with intellectual history and Julian Baggini is an independent scholar, philoso- philosophy to give us a complete vision of Hume’s pher, and writer. He was the founding editor of The guide to life. He follows Hume on his life’s journey, Philosophers’ Magazine and is the author of many literally walking in the great philosopher’s footsteps books, including How the World Thinks: A Global as Baggini takes readers to the places that inspired History of Philosophy and The Edge of Reason: A Hume the most, from his family estate near the Scot- Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World. tish border to Paris, where, as an older man, he was Website julianbaggini.com Twitter @JulianBaggini warmly embraced by French society. Baggini shows May ebook 9780691211206 Audiobook 9780691220833 9780691205434 Hardback $24.95 | £20.00 Philosophy 304 pages. 25 b/w illus. 5 1/2 × 8 1/2. 4 Featured Books The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World William D. Nordhaus From a Nobel Prize–winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why “green thinking” could cure many of the world’s most serious problems— from global warming to pandemics Solving the world’s biggest problems—from climate interactions inside and outside the economy. He catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corpo- shows how rethinking economic efficiency, sustainabil- rate malfeasance—requires, more than anything else, ity, politics, profits, taxes, individual ethics, corporate coming up with new ways to manage the powerful social responsibility, finance, and more would improve interactions that surround us. For carbon emis- the effectiveness and equity of our society.