Digital Civil War, Peter Daou
Digital Civil War, Peter Daou
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Digital Civil War
Confronting the Far-Right Menace

Author: Peter Daou

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2019

Synopsis

The Far Right's rise to power has ignited a digital civil war that rages across multiple fronts and multiple platforms. It is waged with words and images that are designed to inflict psychological harm, to injure through verbal violence, to intimidate and incite, to wreak havoc with rhetoric. The combatants are citizens, activists, politicians, pundits, coders, conspiracists, trolls, agitators, hackers, and journalists. At stake are the nation's bedrock principles: equal rights, fair elections, freedom of speech, racial justice, and the rule of law.

In Digital Civil War: Confronting the Far-Right Menace, Peter Daou, a veteran digital media adviser to major political figures, provides a firsthand account from the war's front lines. He explains that the unceasing toxicity of social media—often treated as an aberration—is a feature, not a bug, of digital warfare.

A better understanding of how the underlying value systems and moral arguments of the warring parties play out online, Daou argues, aids us in confronting the Far Right's takeover of the Republican Party and the consequent assault on truth, facts, and the foundations of our democracy.

About Peter Daou

Peter Daou is an American raised in Beirut, where he survived the Lebanese Civil War to rise to the top of U.S. politics, serving as a digital media strategist in two presidential campaign war rooms. He has advised major political figures, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as leading organizations such as the United Nations Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, and Action Against Hunger. He has appeared regularly on CNN and MSNBC. He lives and works in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J.P. on June 05, 2019

Clearly I understood the premise and I agree with it. The modern GOP has abandoned common sense in favor of an extreme, right-wing agenda detached from reality and, most often, from facts. And yes, social media exacerbates that issue. Having said that, the book was just lazy. Quotes off a Reddit and......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 06, 2020

Looking at the impact of social media on political narratives, Daou's Digital Civil war works mainly as a "how we got here" chronology as well as an indication of "where we are now." It was definitely an interesting read, and we do need more people writing books that do not diminish the power of soc......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 21, 2020

This book is disappointing. At first, I thought it would be an in-depth analysis of online political partisanship in the United States, a data-driven "digital forensic" study of the phenomena so- to speak, it is not. What "Digital Civil War" is, is a summary of the political fights that have permeat......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 15, 2019

Wasn't a fan of the writing or using random Twitter accounts to back positions. As the title states the author is impassioned about not just the far right but conservatives in general. If you want a better view point of left agendas and talking points read Zinn and maybe even Chomski for more intell......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on February 10, 2020

Excellent review of media statements and coverage of important issues in the 2017 campaign and continuing up to the present. This will be a concise record for future readers. As I read it, hard copy, it begins to be a bit dates as the impeachment is over and the world spins on. I also expected advic......more

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