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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy - McChesney, Robert W
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Celebrants and sceptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. McChesney argues that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. He says the Internet is not naturally' commercial. Capitalism's colonisation of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and has made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism, an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance and an ...

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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy 2014, New Press

ISBN-13: 9781620970317

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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy 2013, New Press

ISBN-13: 9781595588678

Hardcover