Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times - Couverture rigide

McChesney, Robert W.

 
9780252024481: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
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ISBN 10 : 0252024486 ISBN 13 : 9780252024481
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 1999

Synopsis

Long seen as a bedrock of democracy and freedom, the media have in fact become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and around the world. The corporate media explosion has set off a corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes a perilous present--and threatens our future.

Robert McChesney's acclaimed analysis of corporate media and its undermining of democracy challenges the myths and assumptions that, at bedrock, serve corporate elites and their political allies. McChesney chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the Internet, digital television, and public broadcasting and argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. As McChesney shows, powerful myths limit our ability to grasp the real nature and logic of the media system. To guarantee our freedoms, citizens must organize politically to restructure the media in ways that secure the independence of a free press and reaffirm its connection to democracy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert McChesney, a research associate professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.A. Broadcasting, 1928-35 and other books on media.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252024486
ISBN 13 
9780252024481
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
427
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781565846340: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times

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ISBN 10 :  1565846346 ISBN 13 :  9781565846340
Editeur : The New Press, 1999
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