Digital Disconnect - How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

Looks at the relationship between economic power and the digital world, encouraging readers to fight back against the monopolies that are making the Internet less democratic. 20,000 first printing.

About the author

Robert W. McChesney (1952–2025) was the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of some two dozen books on media and political economy, including Digital Disconnect, Communication Revolution, and the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy; a co-author, with John Nichols, of Tragedy and Farce; and a co-editor, with Ben Scott, of Our Unfree Press, and, with Victor Pickard, of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (all published by The New Press). McChesney and Nichols are also the co-authors of the award-winning Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. McChesney’s work has been translated into thirty-one languages.

Product details

• Authors: Robert W McChesney, Robert W. McChesney
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9781620970317
• ISBN: 978-1-62097-031-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, Computers / Electronic Commerce