Publicity's Secret

by Jodi Dean

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486785
• ISBN13: 9780801486784
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher