Tuesday, May 12, 2015

A Penetrating Exploration of Communicating in the Digital Age



By Pronoy Sarkar    |   Monday, May 11, 2015  Off the Shelf

“This is an essay about a strain of nasty, knowing abuse spreading like pinkeye through the national conversation—a tone of snarking insult provoked and encouraged by the new hybrid world of print, television, radio, and the Internet,” writes author David Denby in the opening of Snark. As the title and opening line suggest, Snark is about snark, the vituperative and often shallow tactic that, in the age of the Internet, has turned our communication anemic, the schoolyard equivalent of an irritating shoulder-prod.
Published in 2009, following the rise of Barack Obama, Snark has a very particular mission in mind. ... READ MORE


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