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23 produkter
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935
E-bok, 1995
397 kr
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This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically. This process was met by organized opposition and a general level of public antipathy that has been almost entirely overlooked by previous scholarship. McChesney …
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Inbunden, 1999
506 kr
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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 …
Ruthless Criticism
New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History
Av William S. Solomon, Robert W. McChesney
Häftad, 1993
677 kr
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Ruthless Criticism was first published in 1993. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Ruthless Criticism offers perspectives and subjects largely …
Strategies for Media Reform
International Perspectives
Av Jonathan A. Obar, Cheryl Martens m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
539 kr
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Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what …
People Get Ready
The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Av John Nichols, Robert W McChesney
Inbunden, 2016
344 kr
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Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour- or its greatest momentThe consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labour in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. …
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Av Robert W McChesney, Bernie Sanders m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
212 kr
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Foreword by Senator Bernie SandersFresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and …
Political Economy of Media
Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas
Häftad, 2008
345 kr
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More than any other work, The Political Economy of Media demonstrates the incompatibility of the corporate media system with a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking process that brings the system into existence. Among the most acclaimed communication scholars in the world, …
Endless Crisis
How Monopoly-finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
Av John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney
Häftad, 2012
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
333 kr
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Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century
Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
Häftad, 2014
488 kr
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In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new …
Endless Crisis
How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
Häftad, 2017
215 kr
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The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in 2009, hopes for a new phase of economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and …
Will The Last Reporter Please Turn Out The Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Av Robert W McChesney, Victor Pickard m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
330 kr
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The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere and academic publications. Yet, until now, a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this new terrain has been …
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
Av Victor Pickard, Robert W. McChesney
E-bok, 2010
243 kr
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Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." —Library Journal The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis …
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
E-bok, 2011
112 kr
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"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, …
Censored 2003
The Top 25 Censored Stories
Av Robert W. McChesney, Peter Phillips
E-bok, 2011
198 kr
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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed …
Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media
Av John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney
E-bok, 2011
114 kr
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Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of …
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Häftad, 1999
172 kr
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Winner of Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize as well as the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, Rich Media, Poor Democracy destroys the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information “choices” is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls “the greatest of our media …
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Häftad, 2015
201 kr
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First published to great acclaim in 2000, Rich Media, Poor Democracy is Robert W. McChesney's magnum opus. Called 'a rich, penetrating study' by Noam Chomsky, the book is a meticulously researched exposition of how media and communication empires are threatening effective democratic governance. …
Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
Av Robert W McChesney, John Nichols
Häftad, 2002
83 kr
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Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich The corporate grip on the US media system means that journalism often parrots the views of those in power, and hypercommercialism puts profit above all else. The revised, updated and expanded edition of the now sold-out It's the Media, Stupid! chronicles the recent …
Communication Revolution
Critical Junctures and the Future of Media
Inbunden, 2007
212 kr
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In this sharply argued book, McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution which is at the centre of 21st century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part because media criticism and scholarship haven't been up to the task. McChesney's concise …
Communication Revolution
Critical Junctures and the Future of Media
Häftad, 2009
172 kr
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In a sharp and cogent analysis of the history of media studies and a clarion call for citizen participation, McChesney argues that with the internet and wireless technologies set to take over traditional media, there is a unique opportunity to build a more egalitarian communication system. With …
Digital Disconnect
How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Häftad, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
177 kr
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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' …
Corporate Media And The Threat To Democracy
Häftad, 1997
109 kr
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"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, …
