Screen People by Megan Garber - ISBN: 9781035430451
Hardcover
Technology blurs reality, turning people into characters. Fight back.
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Screen People

How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

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  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    11 August 2026

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Summary

‘Incisive’ - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

‘A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity’ SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL

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…

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:238mm x 158mm x 34mm
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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 *

About The Author

Megan Garber

Megan Garber is a staff writer

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