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Digital Disconnect How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Hardcover • 2013 • English

Digital Disconnect How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

By Robert W. McChesney

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Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet’s effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney’s award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect, McChesney returns to this...Show more

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9781595588678

Publisher

New Press, The

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Digital Disconnect How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Format

Hardcover

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