social media

Struggling with school, life, and gender identity after her older brother's death, Ben Y finds solace in her friendships, video games, and the indefinable Ace; but when she starts getting chat messages from her brother, she finds her deepest secrets are suddenly exposed.

Text, infographics, and examples provide an introduction to social media.

When teen Layne Green, a cook on social media, is chosen for a reality TV cooking show called "Voyage de Gourmet," he learns his partner will be his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, whom he wronged. Now the two will have to find a way to reconcile and work together.

Although they started as a place to socialize online, social media platforms have increasingly become a place where people get their news worldwide. According to a 2022 Pew Research Center study, approximately 70 percent of Americans get at least some news from social media platforms. Concerns have risen as more people turn to social media to get news. While some information on social media platforms comes from trustworthy news outlets, other news sources are unreliable, misleading, and even inaccurate.

"Yoyo Gold has always played the role of the perfect Jewish daughter. She keeps kosher, looks after her siblings, and volunteers at the local food bank. She respects the decisions of her rabbi father and encourages her friends to observe the rules of their Orthodox faith. But when she sees her best friend cast out of the community over a seemingly innocent transgression, Yoyo's eyes are opened to the truth of her neighbors' hypocrisies for the first time. And what she sees leaves her shocked and unmoored. As Yoyo's frustration builds, so does the pressure to speak out, even if she can only do so anonymously on TikTok, an app that's always been forbidden to her. But when one of her videos goes viral--and her decisions wind up impacting not only her own life but also her relationship with the boy she's falling for--Yoyo's world is thrown into chaos. She is forced to choose which path to take, for her community, for her family, and most importantly, for herself"--Provided by publisher.

"Ellen Atlanta holds a mirror up to our modern beauty ideal, as well as the pressure to present a perfect image, to live in an age of constant comparison and curated feeds. She weaves in her personal story with others' to reconfigure our obsession with the cult of beauty and explore the reality of living in a world of paradoxes: we know our standards are unhealthy, but understand it's a way to succeed. We resent social media but continue to scroll. We know digital beauty is artificial, but we still strive for it. From Love Island to lip filler, blackfishing to the beauty tax, . . . [an] account of what young women face under a dominant industry. . . . unmasks the absurdities of the standards we suddenly find ourselves upholding, and acts as a rallying cry and a refusal to suffer in silence, forming the definitive book about what it truly feels like to exist as a woman today"--Provided by publisher.

"After her sister's murder acquittal, Amanda Pruitt visits Colorado to reunite with childhood friends and Aunt Amy, where she is drawn into an old murder case, When her friend is killed, Amanda must unravel the connection between the two murders to clear her name"--Provided by publisher.

"For over a decade, Taylor Lorenz has been [an] authority on internet culture, documenting its far-reaching effects on all corners of our lives. In [this] book, she reveals how online influence came to upend the world, demolishing traditional barriers and creating whole new sectors of the economy. Lorenz shows this phenomenon to be one of the most disruptive changes in modern capitalism"--Provided by publisher.

"The debate over what should be allowed and what should be censored can confuse the public and those tasked with enforcing these policies. Banning books, legislating what can be taught in classrooms, and blocking social media posts are examples of actions occurring nationwide and causing confusion in communities. These situations have sparked an intense debate over what censorship is and how it is being used in today's society"--Provided by publisher.

"When she is cut from her middle school's podcast crew, wannabe social media influencer Emily Laurence must find another way to spread the news of a climate march, trying to balance her impeccable manners with twenty-first-century activism"--Provided by publisher.