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Why Platforms Break
Books that explain how social platforms scale, degrade, and fail, from the attention economy and algorithmic amplification to the governance gaps that leave billions exposed when the infrastructure buckles.
Optimized for books about understanding why social media platforms fail, how they work, and what their fragility means for society.

1. The Chaos Machine
Shelf signal: Social Media & Online Life
2. Enshittification
Shelf signal: Social Media & Online Life
3. Empire of AI
Shelf signal: Tech Industry
4. The Attention Merchants
Shelf signal: Media & Communications
5. Likewar
Shelf signal: Social Media & Online Life
6. City Limits
Shelf signal: Urban Life
7. The Address Book
Shelf signal: Urban Life
8. The Digital Frontier
Shelf signal: Social Media & Online Life