Books

Reading Naomi Klein's Doppelganger and Kyle Chayak's Filterworld in quick succession provides a pretty holistic overview of all the impact algorithmically filtered experiences online can have. 

Filterworld: commodifying, and flattening culture 
Doppelganger: hollow out humans by turning them into (static) brands, fostering divide 

Add to that some Byung-Chul Han, Society of the Spectacle by Debord and a little of Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality and you get a good grasp of why life with Big Tech feels as it does. 

Any other books you'd recommend falling into that theme?

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definitely check out 'surveillance capitalism' by shoshana zuboff

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Photography is the story I fail to put into words.' - Destin Sparks

this has definitely been referenced in these books too! 

Gotta put it on my list of books to purchase next. Thank you!

i'm not sure if this fits your request exactly, but i'd highly recommend reading a classic - baudrillard's "simulacra and simulation" if you haven't already. this book had a big impact on me when i was young