You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.

Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map.

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This text takes a politically leftist lens on the polarizing landscape of the internet. Regardless, the message will resonate with liberals and conservatives alike.

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BRILLIANT assessment of current social and political dynamics, written with intensity, wit, and fairness …so it’s likely to be completely ignored by those who need to read it most…