Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Robert W. McChesney

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The New Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 March 2013
Pages
304
ISBN
9781595588678

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Robert W. McChesney

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.

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