Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
By Unknown Author.
Description
In recent decades, media outlets in the United States―most notably the Internet―have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public's demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the "public sphere" endanger democratic politics in the i...
ISBN(s)
0801486785, 9780801486784
