Digital Disconnect How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy |
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| Author:
| McChesney, Robert W. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59558-867-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | New Press, The
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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Celebrants and sceptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. McChesney argues that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. He says the Internet is not 'naturally' commercial. Capitalism's colonisation of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and has made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism, an unparalleled apparatus for...
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Celebrants and sceptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. McChesney argues that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. He says the Internet is not 'naturally' commercial. Capitalism's colonisation of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and has made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism, an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance and an anti-democratic force.