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Is Digital Media Undermining Citizenship?
Media theorist Elizabeth Losh explains how politicians’ digital strategies appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley.
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Media scholar and author Elizabeth Losh illuminates how politicians at both ends of the ideological spectrum use digital technology to galvanize their supporters. Referring to digital strategists at the highest levels of government in several United States administrations, Losh offers revealing insights into how technology reinforces and undermines democracy. This discussion from the MIT Press Reader and moderated by its editors will interest politicians and political campaign managers of any ideological stripe, and, more generally, any citizen or student who uses the internet as a source of information.
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Elizabeth Losh, a professor of English and American Studies at the College of William and Mary, also wrote Selfie Democracy.
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