1st Edition

Invisible Crises What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know about?or think we know about. These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource... Read more

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.

Biography

George Gerbner is professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Hamid Mowlana is professor of communication at American University and president of the International Association of Media Research. Herbert I. Schiller is professor emeritus of communication at the University of California at San Diego. George Gerbner is professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Hamid Mowlana is professor of communication at American University and president of the International Association of Media Research. Herbert I. Schiller is professor emeritus of communication at the University of California at San Diego. George Gerbner is professor emeritus at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Hamid Mowlana is professor of communication at American University and president of the International Association of Media Research. Herbert I. Schiller is professor emeritus of communication at the University of California at San Diego.