Jonathan Rose
Auteur de The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
A propos de l'auteur
For the Internet and digital generation, the most basic human right is the freedom to read. The Web has indeed brought about a rapid and far-reaching revolution in reading, making a limitless global pool of literature and information available to anyone with a computer. At the same time, however, afficher plus the threats of censorship, surveillance, and mass manipulation through the media have grown apace. Readers' Liberation addresses questions that deeply concern everyone in the twenty-first century, and especially Millennials. What should we be reading? Can we trust what we read in the mass media? Can we use the Internet to find the truth out there? Is the Establishment out to deceive us and control our reading, and if so, what can we do about it? This book surveys the history of independent sceptical reading, from antiquity to the present. It tells the stories of heroic efforts at self-education by disadvantaged people in all parts of the world. It analyzes successful reading promotion campaigns throughout history (concluding with Oprah Winfrey) and explains why they succeeded. It also explores some disturbing current trends, such as the reported decay of attentive reading, the disappearance of investigative journalism, 'fake news', the growth of censorship, and the pervasive influence of advertisers and publicists on the media. Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History at Drew University. afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Jonathan Rose
Book History (Volume 10) — Directeur de publication; Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
The Public Understanding of Political Integrity: The Case for Probity Perceptions (Political Corruption and Governance) (2014) 3 exemplaires
Book History (Volume 16) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Book History (Volume 18) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Book History (Volume 17) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Book History (Volume 20) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Book History (Volume 22) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
British Literary Publishing Houses 1820-1880 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 106) (1991) 1 exemplaire
The Literary Churchill 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (1957) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 132 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1952
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Organisations
- Drew University
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- 4.2
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- 7
- ISBN
- 63
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