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Is Digital Media Undermining Citizenship?

“Media theorist Elizabeth Losh explains how politicians’ digital strategies appeal to the same fantasies of digital connection, access, and participation peddled by Silicon Valley.

…smartphones and social media don’t enable participatory democracy so much as they incentivize citizens to perform attention-getting acts of political expression.”

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