Technology enables, and social media perpetuates, informational anarchy and prioritizes the cheap appearance of knowledge over fostering knowledge itself. Also, how the Internet changes cognition and the abandonment of expertise to the holy opinion: "my ignorance is equal to your knowledge."
Also:
-The DIKW pyramid and drowning in data.
-The Id on Parade, the natural state of man, and Leviathan.
-What happens when reasonable voices abandon the public square to mindless mobs of roving avatars?
-When avatars attack
-A classic full-frontal Toddzilla rant salvaged from The Lost Episode about Twitter, and more.
Elias Aboujaode's Virtually You:
https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-You-Dangerous-Powers-Personality/dp/0393340546
Nicholas Carr's The Shallows:
https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death:
https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1558613196&sr=1-1
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