{"product_id":"screen-people-how-we-entertained-ourselves-into-a-state-of-emergency-9780063415690","title":"Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether 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. \u003ci\u003eScreen People\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ten chapters, each themed around an element of entertainment--from \"The Producers,\" who edit our reality, to \"The Extras,\" the strangers we turn into objects of our amusement, to \"the Haters,\" the worshipful Qanon-types who expect the prophecies of their anonymous leader to play out on live television--Garber argues that this comedy of our daily lives is quickly becoming tragedy. And we can't understand our politics without first understanding our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eThe Anxious Generation\u003c\/i\u003e but about our media diet, \u003ci\u003eScreen People\u003c\/i\u003e shows why Megan Garber is one of the most respected and widely-read journalists of our day. It is an urgent, page-turning, and dazzling look at how we entertained ourselves into our current predicament, and how we might find our way out of the maze of misinformation and chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarber, Megan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMegan Garber\u003c\/strong\u003e is a staff writer at \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the recipient of a Mirror Award for her writing about the media and a fellowship from the New America Foundation, and she previously worked as a reporter for the Nieman Journalism Lab, as well as a critic for the \u003cem\u003eColumbia Journalism Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She wrote the chap book \u003cem\u003eOn Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196648517906,"sku":"9780063415690","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_60555254-ebea-41c9-9650-ecc746d671fc.jpg?v=1776156416","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/screen-people-how-we-entertained-ourselves-into-a-state-of-emergency-9780063415690","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}