Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of MediaIn Communication Revolution--both a sharp and cogent analysis of the history of media studies and a clarion call for citizen participation--Robert McChesney argues that with the Internet and wireless technology set to overtake traditional media, we have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build a more egalitarian communication system. He brilliantly shows how communication scholarship has failed to rise to the challenge of conceiving what this system might look like, leaving it to the burgeoning media reform movement (in which he has been a key player) to fill the vision vacuum. Bringing both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on an urgent issue of our time, McChesney challenges us to transform the way we think about media. As Noam Chomsky has said, "Robert McChesney's work has been of extraordinary importance. . . . It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights." |
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... free market editorial page of the Wall Street Journal carries water for AT & T and the big government - created telephone and cable powerhouses to see how the notion of free markets in the realm of media and telecommunication is mostly ...
... free market economics ; acknowledging the extent of their mas- sive public subsidies blows up the free market argument . What was striking to me as I conducted research for this book was that the four main " free market " think tanks in ...
... free market ” has been accepted uncritically as the ideal struc- ture for media industries , with little evidence to support the as- sumption . We increasingly understand that the conventional model of free market economics has severe ...
Contents
Crisis in Communication | 3 |
The Rise and Fall of | 37 |
The Historical Turn Critical Junctures | 99 |
Copyright | |
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Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media Robert W. McChesney,Robert Waterman McChesney No preview available - 2008 |