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Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

byMegan Garber

Megan Garber examines what happens when entertainment becomes a model for public life and everyday relationships. Moving through television, social media, celebrity culture, and politics, she explores how people learn to perform for imagined audiences and treat strangers as characters. The book connects the pursuit of spectacle with weakened trust, loneliness, misinformation, and a diminished sense of other people's reality. Garber asks readers to reconsider the habits encouraged by digital platforms and to recover forms of attention that recognize fellow citizens as human beings rather than content.

Publisher

HarperOne

Publication date

2026-04-21

Format

Hardcover

Pages

304

ISBN

9780063415690