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11%OFFJodi Dean - Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy - 9780801486784 - V9780801486784
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Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy

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Description for Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 177 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.

In recent decades, media outlets in the United States—most notably the Internet—have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public's demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the "public sphere" endanger democratic politics in the information age.Dean's argument is built around analyses of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and technology, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486784
SKU
V9780801486784
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About Jodi Dean
Jodi Dean is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace and the editor of Cultural Studies and Political Theory, both from Cornell.

Reviews for Publicity's Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy
Cultural theorist Jodi Dean's latest book tackles the issue of the public sphere in a refreshingly contemporary and relevant way by focusing on the role of the technological media in the exercise of public democracy.... One of the most interesting discussions in the book is that of subjectification in terms of a drive toward celebrity, which seems to suggest, in ... Read more

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