Media, entertainment, information & communication industries

‘Screen People’ is a deep dive into what happens when we cede our reality to spectacle. Megan Garber explains how the internet-inflected culture of the present moment conditions us, every day, to see each other less as people than 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 stagecraft, Garber builds toward an argument as urgent as it is ironic: our fun is quickly becoming our emergency. And we can’t understand our politics without first understanding our culture. Part critical investigation, part manifesto, part fan’s diary, this book will be an eye-opening journey into the cultural underbelly of our present malaise.