Writer Howard Jacobson
Is social media bad for public discourse?
The Interview · BBC World Service
September 11, 201723m 20s
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Show Notes
Is social media bad for public discourse? Man Booker prize-winning author Howard Jacobson thinks the internet is changing the way we use words, and not for the better. But is he an artist swimming against an irresistible cultural tide?
(Photo: Howard Jacobson author of The Finkler Question, poses after winning the 2010 Man Booker Prize. Credit: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images)