Selfie Democracy - Elizabeth Losh - Bog

"Selfie Democracy exposes the unintended consequences of wireless technologies on political leadership and shows how seemingly benign mobile devices that hold out the promise of direct democracy ultimately undermine representative forms of government and deepen partisan divides. As the smart phone and mobile applications are reshaping civic participation, attitudes about freedom, civic rights, and national security are also changing. Losh shows how the crisis management styles of US leaders over the past decade are closely related to their technological choices and digital literacies"--