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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
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.
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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, as well as the conspiracy theory subculture that has marked American history from the Declaration Independence to the political celebrity of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author claims that the media's insistence on the public's right to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and dissemination of secrets. Consequently, in her view, the theoretical ideal of the public sphere, in which all processes are transparent, reduces real-world politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.  
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Dean's argument is built around [[analyses]] of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and [[technology]], as well as the conspiracy [[theory]] subculture that has marked American [[history]] from the Declaration Independence to the [[political]] celebrity of Hillary Rodham [[Clinton]]. The [[author]] claims that the media's [[insistence]] on the public's [[right]] to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and dissemination of secrets. Consequently, in her view, the [[theoretical]] [[ideal]] of the public sphere, in which all [[processes]] are [[transparent]], reduces [[real]]-[[world]] politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery. --This [[text]] refers to the Hardcover edition.  
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Latest revision as of 21:45, 20 May 2019

Book Description

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, as well as the conspiracy theory subculture that has marked American history from the Declaration Independence to the political celebrity of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author claims that the media's insistence on the public's right to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and dissemination of secrets. Consequently, in her view, the theoretical ideal of the public sphere, in which all processes are transparent, reduces real-world politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

See Also

Jodi Dean