Screen People How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

"A timely study of the internet's toxic effects on American society ... Anybody who spends time online will sympathize with Garber's insightful, well-curated consideration." - Kirkus Reviews

"A thought-provoking, pertinent book." - Booklist

"Anyone who has felt a twinge of regret when their smartphone reminds them how much time they've spent looking at a screen the previous week will appreciate Screen People, Megan Garber's well-informed account of how electronic devices have come to dominate modern lives. ... Armed with some of the insights she shares, perhaps the task of meeting that challenge and reclaiming essential humanity will seem a bit less daunting." - Shelf Awareness (starred review)

"Garber provides a sharp analysis of the way fact and fiction overlap on our screens to create a world that, while real, is not necessarily reality." - New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant, funny, omnivorous excavation of how technology and entertainment have warped humanity, finding new meaning in everything from gender reveals and The Masked Singer to QAnon and Marshall McLuhan. Are we doomed? Not as long as Megan Garber is here to show us the light." - Sophie Gilbert. Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Girl On Girl