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Digital Civil War

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Politics & Current Events
Unabridged   6.75 hour(s)
Publication date: 04/30/2019

Digital Civil War

Confronting the Far-Right Menace

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684572922
Digital Download ISBN:9781684572939

Summary

A deep look into the raging social media battles between red and blue Americans and the growing threat to U.S. democracy from right-wing extremism.

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Product Description

The Far Right's rise to power has ignited a digital civil war that rages across multiple fronts and multiple platforms. It is waged with words and images that are designed to inflict psychological harm, to injure through verbal violence, to intimidate and incite, to wreak havoc with rhetoric. The combatants are citizens, activists, politicians, pundits, coders, conspiracists, trolls, agitators, hackers, and journalists. At stake are the nation's bedrock principles: equal rights, fair elections, freedom of speech, racial justice, and the rule of law.

In Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace, Peter Daou, a veteran digital media adviser to major political figures, provides a firsthand account from the war's front lines. He explains that the unceasing toxicity of social media—often treated as an aberration—is a feature, not a bug, of digital warfare.

A better understanding of how the underlying value systems and moral arguments of the warring parties play out online, Daou argues, aids us in confronting the Far Right's takeover of the Republican Party and the consequent assault on truth, facts, and the foundations of our democracy.

Reviews/Praise

“Beautifully written and absolutely frightening. Peter Daou masterfully explores how the no-holds-barred battles on social media, which have framed the reality for millions of people, will be crucial in determining if American democracy has the strength to pull itself up from the precipice or plunge into a right-wing abyss.”—Carol Anderson, author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide

Author Bio

Peter Daou is an American raised in Beirut, where he survived the Lebanese Civil War to rise to the top of U.S. politics, serving as a digital media strategist in two presidential campaign war rooms. He has advised major political figures, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as leading organizations.