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Screen people : how we entertained ourselves into a state of emergency / Megan Garber.
Van Pelt - New Book Display HM851 .G3494 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garber, Megan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Internet--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Reality television programs--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Reality television programs.
- Reality television programs--Social aspects.
- popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperOne, [2026]
- Summary:
- Whether it's our reality-television-star President or our expertly curated Instagram feeds, the line between fact and fiction--between what's real and what's fabricated for entertainment--has never been more blurred. Screen People explores what happens when we cede our reality to spectacle. Megan Garber explains how today's internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions--loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism--stem from our demand for diversion.
- ISBN:
- 9780063415690
- 0063415690
- OCLC:
- 1582415850
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