Invisible crises : what conglomerate control of media means for America and the world /: what conglomerate control of media means for America and the world. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana, Herbert I.Schiller.
• Editors: Gerbner, George; Mowlana, Hamid, 1937-; Schiller, Herbert I, 1919-2000
• Contents: Part 1 Total control: brave new world minus 400, Ben Bagdikian; information deprivation in an information-rich society, Herbert I. Schiller; the hidden side of television violence, George Gerbner; speaking volumes - the book-publishing oligopoly and its cultural consequences, Leah Binder. Part 2 Technocratic fantasies: computer-assisted crimes, Rick Crawford; freedom, fun and fundamentals - defining digital progress in a democratic society, Nicholas Johnson. Part 3 Gaps that divide us: writing about poverty in the age of plenty, Stanley Meisler; race relations in the suburbs, Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen; national amnesia, cultural Darwinism and the pursuit of power, or what Americans don't know about Indians, Jerry Mander. Part 4 Global fault lines: beaches without bases, Sue Curry Jansen; the new world intellectual order, Johan Galtung; whose whispers in the gallery?, Erskine B. Childers; the crisis of political legitimacy and the Muslim world, Hamid Mowlana; the crisis of mobility, Nancy Snow. Part 5 The new tyrannies: "let them eat pollution", John Bellamy Foster; the silent war - debt and Africa, Jill Hills; global drug scourge - the hidden story, Stephen E. Flynn.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 302.23; Mass media; Mass media and public opinion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429979279; 0429979274
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