The Future Of Media: Resistance and Reform in tihe 21st Century

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This forward-thinking anthology collects the most up-to-date thinking from the vanguard of media theorists, commentators, journalists and policy makers, who examine where we are now and lay out a five-to-ten-year roadmap for change. It considers how open access to the internet relates to tomorrow's wireless technologies, how the problems in commercial journalism stem from poor regulatory policy in broadcasting, how the concerns of media workers should be shared by media consumers and much more. This is a comprehensive handbook for activists, students and concerned citizens.

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McChesney's work has been of extraordinary importance. . . . It should be read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and basic rights. Noam Chomsky


The Future of Mediais a liberation manual for the media commons and an accountability strategy for the rest. A few hours spent on this book and your thousands of hours of interacting with the various media will be of a distinctly different quality. Ralph Nader


A richly informed compendium of hard-hitting commentaries, this book is a valuable weapon in the democratic struggle against media oligopoly. Michael Parenti, author of Democracy for the Few and Inventing Reality

Author Bio

ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. While teaching at Wisconsin, he was selected as one of the top 100 classroom teachers on the Madison campus.