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Informationen zum Autor Herbert I. Schiller has taught in several universities in the United States and around the world. Currently! he is Visiting Professor at New York University and a member of the graduate faculty of the University of California! San Diego! where he is Professor Emeritus of Communication. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Herbert Schiller, long one of America's leading critics of the communications industry, here offers a 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: schools and libraries, media, and political culture. A master media-watcher, Schiller presents a crisp and far-reaching indictment of the "data deprivation" corporate interests are inflicting on the social fabric. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Policing the Culture; Chapter 2 For Sale; Chapter 3 Data Deprivation; Chapter 4 Special Effects; Chapter 5 The Information Superhighway; Chapter 6 Globalizing the Electronic Highway; Chapter 7 American Pop Culture Sweeps the World; Chapter 8 The “Failure” of Socialism and the Next Radical Moment;...
