Information inequality : the deepening social crisis in America /
Schiller, Herbert I., 1919-2000
Information inequality : the deepening social crisis in America / Herbert I. Schiller. - xvi, 149 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Policing the Culture -- For Sale: Schools, Libraries, Information, Elections -- Data Deprivation -- Special Effects: Media High Tech for Capturing Viewers -- The Information Superhighway: Latest Blind Alley? -- Globalizing the Electronic Highway: Creating an Ungovernable World -- American Pop Culture Sweeps the World -- The "Failure" of Socialism and the Next Radical Moment -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"Herbert Schiller, for decades one of America's leading critics of the communications industry, here offers a pungent salvo in the battle over information. In Information Inequality he explains how privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democratic institutions: our schools and libraries, our media, and our political culture. Airwave frequencies are being auctioned off. Newspapers and electronic media increasingly are collapsing into vast global structures. "In the United States of the 1990's," Schiller writes, "the notion of community has become mostly nostalgic. Every facet of living is being, or has been, transformed into a separate, paid-for transaction." The corporate economy's pursuit of still greater private returns is systematically eliminating those institutions and structures that sustain the public interest and the common good. A master media-watcher, Schiller presents a crisp and far-reaching indictment of the "data deprivation" corporate; interests are inflicting on the social fabric. From the realm of advertisisng to the so-called 'empowering' networks of cyberspace, technologies continue to be developed in ways that exacerbate social inequality. Schiller concludes with a cautionary analysis of the world economy: thoguh socialism's failures may lull the Western market into a sense of security, our social needs are more severe, more pressing than ever before. A "next radical moment" will hinge on the question of freedom of information, on the need for equal "information access" for all."--Publisher description.
0415907640 9780415907644 0415907659 9780415907651
95046613
Information technology--United States
Information superhighway--United States
Distributive justice--United States
Equality--United States
Distributive justice
HC110.I55 / S35 1996
303.48330973
Information inequality : the deepening social crisis in America / Herbert I. Schiller. - xvi, 149 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Policing the Culture -- For Sale: Schools, Libraries, Information, Elections -- Data Deprivation -- Special Effects: Media High Tech for Capturing Viewers -- The Information Superhighway: Latest Blind Alley? -- Globalizing the Electronic Highway: Creating an Ungovernable World -- American Pop Culture Sweeps the World -- The "Failure" of Socialism and the Next Radical Moment -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"Herbert Schiller, for decades one of America's leading critics of the communications industry, here offers a pungent salvo in the battle over information. In Information Inequality he explains how privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democratic institutions: our schools and libraries, our media, and our political culture. Airwave frequencies are being auctioned off. Newspapers and electronic media increasingly are collapsing into vast global structures. "In the United States of the 1990's," Schiller writes, "the notion of community has become mostly nostalgic. Every facet of living is being, or has been, transformed into a separate, paid-for transaction." The corporate economy's pursuit of still greater private returns is systematically eliminating those institutions and structures that sustain the public interest and the common good. A master media-watcher, Schiller presents a crisp and far-reaching indictment of the "data deprivation" corporate; interests are inflicting on the social fabric. From the realm of advertisisng to the so-called 'empowering' networks of cyberspace, technologies continue to be developed in ways that exacerbate social inequality. Schiller concludes with a cautionary analysis of the world economy: thoguh socialism's failures may lull the Western market into a sense of security, our social needs are more severe, more pressing than ever before. A "next radical moment" will hinge on the question of freedom of information, on the need for equal "information access" for all."--Publisher description.
0415907640 9780415907644 0415907659 9780415907651
95046613
Information technology--United States
Information superhighway--United States
Distributive justice--United States
Equality--United States
Distributive justice
HC110.I55 / S35 1996
303.48330973