Screen People
How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency
$47.07
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
From an award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, Screen People is an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape conditions us to see everyone as characters in ongoing entertainment - and how we can fight back.
Whether it’s our expertly curated Instagram feeds or the reality-television-star US President, the line between what’s real and what’s fabricated for entertainment has never been more blurred. Screen People explores what happens when we ce…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035430451 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035430452 |
| Author: | Megan Garber |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Wildfire |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 158mm x 238mm |
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Critics Review
A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity, finding new meaning in everything from gender reveals and The Masked Singer to QAnon and Marshall McLuhan. Are we doomed? Not as long as Megan Garber is here to show us the light. * SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL *
A timely study of the internet’s toxic effects on American society … Anybody who spends time online will sympathise with Garber’s insightful, well-curated consideration. * KIRKUS REVIEWS *
A scathing … examination of how the radically shifting contemporary media environment has warped Americans’ interactions with one another and the world … Incisive. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
Megan Garber
Megan Garber is a staff writer
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