Ashley 'Dotty' Charles

Outraged (eBook, ePUB)

Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The powerful new voice of her generation'
The Times

'Funny, nuanced and wonderful'
Jon Ronson

'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time'
Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie

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A candid exploration of the state of outrage in our culture, and how we can channel it back into the fights that matter, from presenter and DJ Ashley 'Dotty' Charles.

In this wise and very funny journey into the outrage industry, Ashley 'Dotty' Charles explores how by shouting about everything, we have lost sight of the fights that actually matter - and created a world where our outrage feels with consequence.

Here's how we can get it back on track.

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'Funny, educational, enlightening . . . Way ahead of its time' Chris Evans

'A smart and timely manifesto for surviving the age of rage' i

'Everyone with a social media account should read this book' Bella Mackie

'A swipe at the empty rhetoric of activism' Observer

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526605047
• Artikelnr.: 59615286

Autorenporträt

Ashley 'Dotty' Charles is a broadcaster and writer from south London. After joining the BBC in 2014 she became the first solo female to host the BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show in 2016, where she interviewed everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Will Smith. She has presented TV programmes including BBC One's music show, 'Sounds Like Friday Night', and BBC Three's 'Story of Grime' documentary series. In 2020 Dotty was appointed the role of Lead Cultural Curator at Apple and was named Commissioning Editor at GRAZIA. She lives with her wife and two sons in London.

Rezensionen

A great read . . . Charles is very funny, but the irreverent and chatty tone leads you to important ponderings . . . Outraged is a study of flash activism and why it doesn't last, and its message is rendered all the more relevant for it being published in the midst of a flash of activism that simply must