Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595588671
• ISBN13: 9781595588678
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"