Selfie Democracy
The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection
$41.33
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2022
Summary
In Selfie Democracy, Elizabeth Losh examines the unintended consequences of politicians’ digital strategies, from the Obama campaign’s pioneering construction of an online community to Trump’s Twitter dominance. She finds that politicians who use digital media appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, smartphones and social media don’t enable participatory democracy so much as they incentivize citizens to perfo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047050 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047055 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Losh |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Elizabeth Losh
Elizabeth Losh is Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and English at William & Mary. She is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes and The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.
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