The Dark Side of Social Media

Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives

Pavica Sheldon, Philipp Rauschnabel, James M. Honeycutt
Elsevier S&T
188 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0128159170
July 2019

The Dark Side of Social Media: Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives examines how social media can negatively affect our lives. The book tackles issues related to social media such as emotional and mental health, shortened attention spans, selective self-presentation and narcissism, the declining quality of interpersonal relationships, privacy and security, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, misinformation and online deception, and negative peer effects. It goes on to discuss social media and companies (loss of power, challenging control mechanisms) and societies as a whole (fake news, chatbots, changes in the workplace).