June 4, 2026
Screen People How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency
Screen People How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency | 1.36 MB
Title: Screen People
Author: Megan Garber
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Social Science, History
Language: English | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1035430452
Description:
An eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment-and how we can fight back, from the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic.
Whether it’s our reality-television-star President or our expertly curated Instagram feeds, the line between fact and fiction-between what’s real and what’s fabricated for entertainment-has never been more blurred. Screen People explores what happens when we cede our reality to spectacle. Megan Garber explains how today’s internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions-loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism-stem from our demand for diversion.
In ten chapters, each themed around an element of entertainment-from "The Producers," who…
An eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment-and how we can fight back, from the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic.
Whether it’s our reality-television-star President or our expertly curated Instagram feeds, the line between fact and fiction-between what’s real and what’s fabricated for entertainment-has never been more blurred. Screen People explores what happens when we cede our reality to spectacle. Megan Garber explains how today’s internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions-loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism-stem from our demand for diversion.
In ten chapters, each themed around an element of entertainment-from "The Producers," who…
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