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On Wednesday, May 6, the Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber will sit down with The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, to discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency. Garber offers an eye-opening look at how today’s internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions—loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism—stem from our demand for diversion. LaFrance and Garber will discuss how we can fight back against this phenomenon.
Screen People is available wherever books are sold.
On Wednesday, May 6, the Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber will sit down with The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, to discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency. Garber offers an eye-opening look at how today’s internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions—loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism—stem from our demand for diversion. LaFrance and Garber will discuss how we can fight back against this phenomenon.
Screen People is available wherever books are sold.
