Screen People

In Screen People, Megan Garber delivers a thoughtful survey of how electronic devices and interactive media dominate modern lives, drawing on ideas from Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman.

She argues that today's internet-inflected culture conditions us to view others not as people but as characters, blending roles of actors, audiences, producers, and consumers.

Despite powerful forces driving these changes, Garber ends on a cautiously optimistic note, emphasizing society's power to decide how to live among screens.