Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy

by Byung-Chul Han

Book Overview

The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics. Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and troll armies, and democracy is degenerating into infocracy.

In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form of rule characteristic of contemporary information...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509552987
• ISBN13: 9781509552986
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"