Selfie Democracy by Elizabeth Losh (.ePUB)
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Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection (The MIT Press) by Elizabeth Losh
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Overview: How politicians’ digital strategies appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley.
Smartphones and other digital devices seem to give us a direct line to politicians. But is interacting with presidential tweets really a manifestation of digital democracy? 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 perform attention-getting acts of political expression.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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