- Nota de la moderacion: informacion en ingles sobre el nuevo libro
"Rich Media, Poor Democracy". La parte "promocion" del mensaje
fue cortada por la moderacion -
"McChesney 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."
> RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY
> Communication Politics in Dubious Times
>
> ROBERT W. McCHESNEY
>
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> 424 pages. Cloth, ISBN 0-252-02448-6. 32.95 dollars
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> Robert McChesney argues that the media have become a significant
> anti-democratic force in the United States, and, to varying degrees,
> worldwide. He addresses the corporate media explosion and the
> corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.
> Challenging the assumption that a society drenched in commercial
> information "choices" is ipso facto a democratic one, McChesney 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. This concentrated
> corporate control, McChesney maintains, is disastrous for any notion of
> participatory democracy.
>
> Combining historical sweep with unprecedented detail on current events,
> 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. He also addresses the gradual and ominous adaptation of
> the First Amendment ("freedom of the press") as a means of shielding
> corporate media power and the wealthy.
>
> The book exposes several myths about the media-in particular that the
> market compels media firms to "give people what they want." If we value
> our democracy, McChesney warns, we must organize politically to
> restructure the media in order to reaffirm their connection to
> democracy.
>
> ROBERT W. McCHESNEY, a research associate professor in the Institute of
> Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and
> Information 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.S. Broadcasting, 1928-35 and other books on
> media.
>
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
> Introduction: The Media-Democracy Paradox
>
> PART I: Politics
> U.S. Media at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
> The Media System Goes Global
> Will the Internet Set Us Free?
>
> PART II: History
> Educators and the Battle for Control of
> U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-35
> Public Broadcasting: Past, Present, . . . and Future?
> The New Theology of the First Amendment:
> Class Privilege over Democracy
>
> Conclusion: The U.S. Left and Media Politics
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