Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media

by Hannan

Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we explain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197557767
• ISBN13: 9780197557761
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages