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100	1		_aSchiller, Herbert I., _d1919-2000 _eauthor. _91168948
245	1	0	_aInformation inequality : _bthe deepening social crisis in America / _cHerbert I. Schiller.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c1996.
300			_axvi, 149 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _g1. _tPolicing the Culture -- _g2. _tFor Sale: Schools, Libraries, Information, Elections -- _g3. _tData Deprivation -- _g4. _tSpecial Effects: Media High Tech for Capturing Viewers -- _g5. _tThe Information Superhighway: Latest Blind Alley? -- _g6. _tGlobalizing the Electronic Highway: Creating an Ungovernable World -- _g7. _tAmerican Pop Culture Sweeps the World -- _g8. _tThe "Failure" of Socialism and the Next Radical Moment -- _tIndex.
520			_a"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.
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650		0	_aEquality _zUnited States _9592965
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