In no particular order, here are some books to get you started. Some are pessimistic, some are optimistic. But all of them are interesting.
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
Tap, Click, READ: Growing Readers in a World of Screens by Lisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine
Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism by Thomas E Patterson
True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News by Cindy Otis
The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook by Francen Haugen
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing Through Media Influence by Karen Dill
Virtual Unreality by Charles Seife
I Live in the Future And Here’s How It Works by Nick Bilton
The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy and Imagination in a Digital World by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis
The News: A User’s Manual by Alain de Botton
Broken News by Chris Stirewalt
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media illustrated by Josh Neufield
Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload by Bill Kovach and Tom Ronsenstiel
Reality Bites Back: the Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer Pozner
UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succed in our All-About-Me World by Mchele Borba
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson