Screen People

A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity, finding new meaning in everything from gender reveals and The Masked Singer to QAnon and Marshall McLuhan. Are we doomed? Not as long as Megan Garber is here to show us the light. * SOPHIE GILBERT, PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF GIRL ON GIRL *A timely study of the internet’s toxic effects on American society … Anybody who spends time online will sympathise with Garber’s insightful, well-curated consideration. * KIRKUS REVIEWS *A scathing … examination of how the radically shifting contemporary media environment has warped Americans’ interactions with one another and the world … Incisive. * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *

Megan Garber is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She is the recipient of a Mirror Award for her writing about the media and a fellowship from the New America Foundation. She previously worked as a reporter for the Nieman Journalism Lab, as well as a critic for the Columbia Journalism Review. At The Atlantic, she writes about the intersection of politics and culture (which often, but not always, means that she writes about reality TV). She is the author of On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politics. She lives in Washington, DC.