Robert McChesney's "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" (The New Press, 1999) destroys the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is a democratic one.
Recent talk with McChesney available online (audio):
RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY:
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
by Robert W. McChesney, Research Professor, Institute of Communications Research and Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Robert McChesney's "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" (The New Press, 1999)
destroys the assumption that a society drenched in commercial
information "choices" is a democratic one. McChesney maintains that
the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are no more
than a handful of enormous corporations, and that this concentrated
corporate control is disastrous for any notion of participatory
democracy.
Listen to the talk:
http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/mcchesney.ram
Original: Rich Media, Poor Democracy