{"product_id":"screen-people-megan-garber-9798228690813","title":"Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the popular and award-winning staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment--and how we can fight back against this phenomenon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether it's our reality-television-star President or our expertly curated Instagram feeds, the line between fact and fiction--between what's real and what's fabricated for entertainment--has never been more blurred. \u003ci\u003eScreen People\u003c\/i\u003e explores what happens when we cede our reality to spectacle. Megan Garber explains 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ten chapters, each themed around an element of stagecraft--from \"The Producers,\" who edit our reality, to \"The Props,\" the strangers we turn into objects of our amusement, to \"the Haters,\" the worshipful Qanon-types who expect the prophecies of their anonymous leader to play out on live television--Garber argues that this comedy of our daily lives is quickly becoming tragedy. And we can't understand our politics without first understanding our culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eThe Anxious Generation\u003c\/i\u003e but about our media diet, \u003ci\u003eScreen People\u003c\/i\u003e shows why Megan Garber is one of the most respected and widely-read journalists of our day. It is an urgent, page-turning, and dazzling look at how we entertained ourselves into our current predicament, and how we might find our way out of the maze of misinformation and chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Garber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228690813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperAudio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Megan Garber","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48112742564095,"sku":"9798228690813","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71f5fdb4-bea7-4a91-b1af-e95aa5432627.jpg?v=1769610632","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/screen-people-megan-garber-9798228690813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}