{"article":{"id":4587,"heading":"Rich Media, Poor Democracy","author":"who","created":"2000-11-14 17:25:41","modified":"2000-11-14 18:00:00","last_modified":"Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:00:00","article":"

Recent talk with McChesney available online (audio):





RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY:


Communication Politics in Dubious Times<\/b>





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<\/a>



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