(CNN) -- For his 2010 book "A New American Picture," artist Doug Rickard used photos he gathered from Google Street View to give viewers a voyeuristic peek into several of America's most economically distressed neighborhoods. The point was to draw people's attention to the places we read about in the news — and comment about from the comfort of our own neighborhoods — but never actually visit. Now, Rickard is following that work up with a new book called "N.A.," where he continues to mine the Internet for views of America that are anything but idyllic. This time, he snatches frame grabs from videos that were made on cell phones and uploaded to YouTube.
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For his latest book, Doug Rickard snatches frames from uploaded cell phone videos
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He searched for terms related 'to the broken elements of the American economic spectrum'
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Much of what he found involved predatory acts, with people being exploited for 'likes'
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He said his book is about modern technology as well as race and poverty
Rickard acknowledged that the images show "elements of social media and technology that aren't pretty," but he said the series is also about @placeholder as medium and the way it has become "a platform where people have a voice — it is an immediate stage with reach."