On Wednesday, May 6, staff writer Megan Garber will sit down with The Atlantic’s executive editor, Adrienne LaFrance, to discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency. Garber offers an eye-opening account of how today’s internet-inflected culture conditions us to see one another not as people but as characters in an ongoing show, and how some of our most chronic and harmful social problems—loneliness, depression, mistrust, misinformation, cynicism—stem from our demand for diversion. LaFrance and Garber will discuss how we can fight back against this phenomenon.
Attendees can send questions in advance for Garber to answer live during the session. Submit your questions here.
To join their conversation, return to this page on Wednesday, May 6, at noon eastern time. Or add the event to your calendar.
Screen People is available wherever books are sold.
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