COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION : Critical Junctures and the Future of Media - Hardcover

Robert McChesney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159558207X ISBN 13: 9781595582072

Publisher: The New Press, 2007

Synopsis

In this sharply argued book, McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution which is at the centre of 21st century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part because media criticism and scholarship haven't been up to the task. McChesney's concise history of media studies shows how communication scholarship has grown increasingly irrelevant in recent years, even as the media became a decisive issue of these times. The revolution in communication calls for a transformation in the way we think about media.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159558207X
• ISBN 13: 9781595582072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304