Connected:The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

I started my search for the book I would do a report on with blatantly searching the words "Information Society" which got me absolutely no where. I didn't see a single book that looked interesting. So I specified my search by thinking of something I would be more interested in, Social Media, which was my next search.

The three books I found were: Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind, The end of Absence: reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection, and Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal.

I ended up choosing The end of Absence: reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection because I found it to be the most interesting. It is about how our silences in our days are now filled, how we no longer have "free time." Every moment of our free time is spent on some form of social media or internet connected device. The books urges its readers to think of the time before the internet was so readily available all of the time. Its something that only this generation is going to experience from now on. This topic fully relates to my generation and experience with the coming of age of technology and internet.

Things a Little Bird Told Me is about the co founder of Twitter and how he "single handedly changed the world works."It informs the reader of the power of ingenuity and how the nature of it plays out in the corporate world today. He also goes on to describe the five points of how the world works within the context of corporate work and social media.

Hatching Twitter is about how twitter grew to exponential speeds from an insider's viewpoint.It also speaks to the global influence that Twitter has reached and how it has been used to help in political angst. It covers the effect that one source of social media can play in a worldwide change of social habits and information.

Due to its August 7th 2014 publication date, there are not very many academic reviews of the book. But there are reviews of the book in many newspapers an online sites, listed below.

http://www.quillandquire.com/review/the-end-of-absence-reclaiming-what-weve-lost-in-a-world-of-constant-connection/

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-harris/end-absence/

https://blogcritics.org/book-review-end-absence-michael-harris/

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-44342-627-5

http://www.endofabsence.com/the-end-of-absence/