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"From an award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape conditions us to see everyone as characters in ongoing entertainment--and how we can fight back. Whether it's with our reality-television-star president or in our expertly curated Instagram feeds, the line between what's real and what's fabricated for entertainment has never been more blurred. Screen People explores what happens when we cede our reality to spectacle and explains how today's internet-inflected culture incentivizes us to see one another as characters in a show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social conditions--loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, and cynicism--stem from our demand for diversion. In ten chapters, each themed around an element of entertainment, Megan 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. Like The Anxious Generation but about our media diet, Screen People shows why Megan Garber is one of the most respected and widely read journalists of our day. This book is an urgent, dazzling look at how we entertained ourselves into this predicament and shows us how we might find our way out of the chaos"--Jacket.