Reading Level
What is the reading level of The Twittering Machine?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Twittering Machine is 12th and 13th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
The Twittering Machine
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 10 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 12 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 11 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 8 |
Reading Time
4 hrs 59 mins
How long to read The Twittering Machine?
The estimated word count of The Twittering Machine is 74,555 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 59 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 18 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 46 mins.
| The Twittering Machine - 74,555 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 8 hrs 18 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 59 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 46 mins |
- Authors
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Richard Seymour
More about The Twittering Machine
74,555 words
Word Count
for The Twittering Machine
256 pages
Pages
8 hours and 1 minute
Audiobook length
Description
A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social mediaFormer social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time. In this polemical tour de force, Richard Seymour shows how the digital world is changing the ways we speak, write, and think. Through journalism, psychoanalytic reflection and insights from users, developers, security experts and others, Seymour probes the human side of the machine, asking what we’re getting out of it, and what we’re getting into. Social media held out the promise that we could make our own history–to what extent did we choose the nightmare that it has become?