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 The Problem of the Media:
U.S. Communication
Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert W. McChesney
The symptoms of the
crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth
of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership,
increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate.
McChesney’s new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots
of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media
reform movement.
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 Censorship, Inc.:
The Corporate Threat to
Free Speech in the United States by Lawrence Soley
“[Lawrence] Soley
demonstrates a broad knowledge of First Amendment theory, economic history,
employment law, corporate power, organizational communication, and media
structure … [He] lays bare the methods by which corporate officials create
information scripts for the public and strategically control speech …
Soley presents provocative and persuasive arguments to which all students of
communication should be exposed.”
— The Southern
Communication Journal
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 Digital Diploma Mills:
The Automation of Higher
Education by David F. Noble
Here is the first
book-length analysis of the meaning of the Internet for the future of higher
education. David Noble overcomes sterile debates about whether new digital
technologies are in themselves a benefit or liability by showing how their use
in education have reshaped the role of the intellectual and transformed
relations between faculty, management and corporations. His analysis shows how
university teachers are losing control over what they teach, how they teach,
and for what purpose. It also shows how erosion of their intellectual property
rights makes academic employment ever less secure. Written from the frontlines
of the battle for higher education, Digital Diploma Mills demonstrates
that the online university is as much a threat to higher education as an
opportunity.
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 Capitalism and the
Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global
Communication Revolution edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood,
and John Bellamy Foster
“Anyone concerned
about the direction the information revolution is taking should read this book.
The subjects covered are far-ranging … [The] essays are clearly written,
making the book accessible to a broad range of readers. In short, highest
recommendation …” —Choice
“Explains in very concrete terms how
the global communication revolution is still firmly controlled by capital, and
that the ‘freedom’ of expression we enjoy today is really shaped by a
few mega-corporations who own virtually all of the media and entertainment
industries.”—Development in Practice
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