A review by imbook_ed
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Christopher A. Bail

3.0

I was hoping this was more of a general look at social media but instead it was based around politics on social media. It didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know so unfortunately it fell a little flat for me. I do like how even though this book was about politics it manages to stay independent without picking a “side”. It was relatively interesting and I think if you were someone that’s very into politics you will either love or hate this book because of that. I do wish that the studies that were talked about weren’t so detailed throughout the actual book and instead just gave the background and finding of the study and put a footnote to another page for people who were interested in learning more about the studies that he ran. I think that does add some more factual evidence to help his case in writing this book but for someone like me that HATED having to read study upon study in college... this gave me bad PTSD and flashbacks to those long gruesome hours of studying years ago lol.