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Gosto, logo existo Isabel Meira Bernardo P. Carvalho
Gosto, logo existo Isabel Meira Bernardo P. Carvalho
Gosto, logo existo Isabel Meira Bernardo P. Carvalho
Gosto, logo existo Isabel Meira Bernardo P. Carvalho
Gosto, logo existo Isabel Meira Bernardo P. Carvalho

Technical specs

Original title: Gosto, logo existo — redes sociais, jornalismo e um estranho vírus chamado fake news
156 pages / 150 x 210 mm
ISBN: 9789898145482 / RRP: 17,90€
1st edition: November 2020
2nd reprint: September 2023

© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Korean, Spanish, Russian

I like, therefore I am

Social media, journalism and a strange virus called fake news

Bernardo P. Carvalho

Isabel Meira

(Portuguese edition)

With the whole world at our fingertips, it’s never been easier to overestimate our knowledge, our understanding of things.

We’ve got used to receiving information and disinformation through secret algorithms; to having routines in virtual worlds; to communicating via abbreviations and emojis. We live in a huge bubble of likes and shares. Invisible giants like Google or Facebook have transformed the way we access information.

But do we actually know the rules of this game? What’s the impact of all this on our relationships with the world and on our decisions?

This book believes that it’s important to ask questions and that you can’t find all the answers on Google.

For readers of all ages (from 12 years on).

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Technical specs

Original title: Gosto, logo existo — redes sociais, jornalismo e um estranho vírus chamado fake news
156 pages / 150 x 210 mm
ISBN: 9789898145482 / RRP: 17,90€
1st edition: November 2020
2nd reprint: September 2023

© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Korean, Spanish, Russian

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Awards and recognitions

Selected — BRAW Amazing Bookshelf 2022

Recommended — National Reading List (Portugal)

Mention — Banco del Libro “Best books of the year” – Informative book category (Venezuela, 2022)

What they say

5 Stars, Expresso newspaper
There are books which are truly important, because they reflect playfully on things that form part of our life as part of a community, just at the moment when the world is crying out for that reflection. “I like, therefore I exist” is one of those books, and the fact it’s categorised as a book for younger readers doesn’t lessen its importance in any way.
Sara Figueiredo Costa, Expresso newspaper, 22/05/2021

Calling to the table the experiences and perspectives on the world of the younger generations, Isabel Meira avoids generational superiority or paternalism and proposes with great clarity that the reader accompany her in her knowledge but above all in her questioning of the world, how we live in it and the relationships (…) that we create with one another.
Sara Figueiredo Costa, Parágrafo magazine, 29/01/2021

5 Stars, Canal Lector
Isabel Meira (…) expertly dissects the present-day world of communication, with reliable data, contrasting realities, exposed lies, advice for identifying fake news… An excellent manual accompanied by the best possible adornments, the always evocative illustrations of Bernardo P. Carvalho, one of Portugal’s most interesting artists.
Canal Lector, 12/2021

An informative, questioning and at the same time literary book which explores issues relating to social networks, journalism, fake news, the internet and the true value of information. (…) A true lesson in media literacy.
2027 National Reading Program (Portugal)

A synthesis for those that know a lot, and a way in for those who know nothing of this universe.
Rita Figueiras, on the programme “A espantosa realidade das coisas”, TSF radio (31/01/2021)

There are books full of questions, some more obvious, others less so. There are books which are troubling and provocative. There are books which pique our sense of doubt, which seems to go against “human nature”. There are books which are so good, really so very very good, that we want them near us. “I like, therefore I exist” is one of those books.
Júlia Martins, Deus me livro, 9/03/2021

In “I like, therefore I exist”, the journalist gently leads younger readers and families towards very relevant issues such as technology companies’ use of personal data, our need – already cited – of confirmation that we are alive, “addiction” to mobile phones, algorithms or how those algorithms enclose us in increasingly small bubbles and polarise society.
Adrián Cordellat, El País newspaper, 5/02/2022

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