Robert W. McChesney
Auteur de Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
A 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
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Œuvres de Robert W. McChesney
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004) 207 exemplaires
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again (2010) 98 exemplaires
Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (2005) 61 exemplaires
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It (2010) — Directeur de publication — 57 exemplaires
Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism (2004) — Directeur de publication — 56 exemplaires
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy (2016) 50 exemplaires
Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution (1998) 38 exemplaires
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 (1993) 37 exemplaires
Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy (2014) 23 exemplaires
Our Media, Not Theirs (Open Media Series) 3 exemplaires
Capitalism and the information age 1 exemplaire
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- McChesney, Robert Waterman
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- McChesney, Bob
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- 1952-12-22
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- USA
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- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Evergreen State College (BA)
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- University of Illinois
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Chapter 1 says that the two sides talking about whether the Internet is a positive influence, or a negative influence are talking past each other. In the preface and in chapter 1, he cites lots of other books which presumably have similar concerns. In Goodreads, the other books this author has written all look like they are all on a similar topic.
But, rather than belabor each of the chapters, the point of the book is that Capitalism took over the Internet when advertisers moved in. And as a consequence, professional journalism is going, going, and almost gone. He is especially concerned with the loss of investigative journalism, and of local news reporting.
It's enough to make me itch to support the old style of Journalism by subscribing to two publications that definitely do not see eye-to-eye: The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
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