Digital Disconnect

Hailed as “important€ (Truthdig) and praised for its “excellent insight€ (Patricia J. Williams, The Nation), Digital Disconnect, by activist and “exemplary public intellectual€ (Choice) Robert W. McChesney, skewers the assumption that a society drenched in information in a digital age is inherently a democratic one.

A prescient examination of the relationship between the Internet and the economy-one that has become even more relevant since its publication in hardcover-the book argues that capitalism€s colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and made the Internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance.

“A provocative and far-reaching account of how capitalism has shaped the Internet in the United States€ (Kirkus Reviews) and “an excellent analysis of the problem where a medium with the capacity to empower people is itself becoming a tool of social control€ (Daily Kos), Digital Disconnect is both a groundbreaking critique of the Internet and an urgent call to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.