Publicity's Secret How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy

Name: Publicity's Secret How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
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ISBN: 9780801486784

ISBN-10: 0801486785

ISBN-13: 9780801486784

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jodi Dean

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In recent decades, media outlets in the United States—most notably the Internet—have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public's demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the "public sphere" endanger democratic politics in the information age. Dean's argument is built around analyses of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and…

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List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction Communicative Capitalism the Ideological Matrix



Publicity's Secret



Conspiracy's Desire



Little Brothers



Celebrity's Drive


Conclusion: Neo-Democracy


Notes


Index