Digital Culture in the Age of American Unreason
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More and more people are regularly communicating via blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, but what do these exchanges amount to, and are we communicating more about less? Joining us to explore the relationships between digital culture, anti-intellectualism, fundamentalism, and American education is Susan Jacoby, the author of The Age of American Unreason, and Nicholas Carr, a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review who writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His latest book is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
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