Digital Disconnect

Digital Disconnect

<div>Hailed as “important€ (<I>Truthdig</I>) and praised for its “excellent insight€ (Patricia J. Williams, <I>The Nation</I>), <I>Digital Disconnect</I>, by activist and “exemplary public intellectual€ (<I>Choice</I>) Robert W. McChesney, skewers the assumption that a society drenched in information in a digital age is inherently a democratic one.<br> <br>A prescient examination of the relationship between the Internet and the economy-one that has become even more relevant since its publication in hardcover-the book argues that capitalism€s colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and made the Internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance.<br> <br>“A provocative and far-reaching account of how capitalism has shaped the Internet in the United States€ (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>) and “an excellent analysis of the problem where a medium with the capacity to empower people is itself becoming a tool of social control€ (<I>Daily Kos</I>), <I>Digital Disconnect</I> is both a groundbreaking critique of the Internet and an urgent call to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.<br> </div>