Trolling Ourselves to Death Democracy in the Age of Social Media [Audiobook]

Free Download Jason Hannan, Ray Greenley (Narrator), "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)"
English | ASIN: B0CT642QM6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:06:00 | 201 MB
Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death.
Contrary to the popular view of the troll as an exclusively anonymous online prankster, Hannan asserts that trolls have emerged from the cave, so to speak. Trolls now include politicians, performers, patriots, and protesters. What was once a mysterious phenomenon limited to the darker corners of the Internet has since gone mainstream, eroding our public culture and changing the rules of democratic politics.