Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society

Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an inwardly-focused society. Chapter 1 The Illusion of Connectivity; Chapter 2 The Attention Economy; Chapter 3 The Bias Against Understanding; Chapter 4 Seeds of Disconnect; Chapter 5 The Community of Me; Chapter 6 Context Free; Chapter 7 The End of Mass Media;