Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney

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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 anti-democratic force.'
  • ISBN10 1595588914
  • ISBN13 9781595588913
  • Publish Date 5 March 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint New Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 320
  • Language English