Digital civil war confronting the far-right menace
Prologue : from Beirut to the Beltway -- Battle for identity : the real American? -- Battle for truth : enemies of the people? -- Battle for trust : democracy and hypocrisy -- Battle for justice : the new patriot -- Battle for faith : un-Christian values -- Battle for freedom : a woman's choice...
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Brooklyn ; London
Melville House
April 2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue : from Beirut to the Beltway -- Battle for identity : the real American? -- Battle for truth : enemies of the people? -- Battle for trust : democracy and hypocrisy -- Battle for justice : the new patriot -- Battle for faith : un-Christian values -- Battle for freedom : a woman's choice -- Battle for life : blood in the streets? -- Battle for power : obscene money? -- Battle for tomorrow : the climate warriors -- Conclusion : finding our moral compass "Are rural white Christians the real Americans? Should teachers be armed or should the Second Amendment be repealed? Is abortion murder or an ethically sound choice for women? Should migrant babies be caged or should ICE be abolished? Should billionaires exist while children go hungry? These are some of the bitter ideological disputes that have turned social media into a political battlefield. In Digital Civil War, Peter Daou, a veteran digital-media adviser to presidential candidates, investigates the underlying value systems and moral arguments of the warring parties, arguing that democracy itself is under assault by an emboldened and empowered Far Right. Daou shows how the digital civil war is waged with words and images that are designed to inflict psychological harm, to injure through verbal violence, to wreak havoc with rhetoric. And he explains that the relentless toxicity of social media – often treated as an aberration – is a feature, not a bug, of digital warfare."--Amazon.com |
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| Beschreibung: | 280 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781612197876 978-1-61219-787-6 |