Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney

Book Overview

Hailed as "important" ( Truthdig ) and praised for its "excellent insight" (Patricia J. Williams, The Nation ), Digital Disconnect , by activist and "exemplary public intellectual" ( Choice ) Robert W. McChesney, skewers the assumption that a society drenched in information in a digital age is inherently a democratic one. A prescient examination of the relationship between the Internet and the economy--one that has become even more relevant since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620970317
• ISBN13: 9781620970317
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"