Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy - Couverture rigide

McChesney, Robert W.

 
9781595588678: Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Synopsis

Celebrants and sceptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. McChesney argues that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. He says the Internet is not """"naturally"""" commercial. Capitalism's colonisation of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism and has made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism, an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance and an anti-democratic force.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on the media, including the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy and Communication Revolution, and a co-editor (with Victor Pickard) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights. He lives in Champaign, Illinois.

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9781620970317: Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

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ISBN 10 :  1620970317 ISBN 13 :  9781620970317
Editeur : The New Press, 2014
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