[458] in peace2
Who owns the media and why it matters!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Wed Nov 8 15:25:47 2000
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:25:15 -0500
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This Thursday!!!
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RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY:
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
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with
Robert W. McChesney
Research Professor, Institute of Communications
Research and Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Lydon, host of National Public Radio's "The Connection"
Thursday, November 9, 2000 at 5:30 pm
Media Lab, Bartos Theater, ground floor, Bldg. E15 - the Wiesner Building,
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
FREE, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible
Info: (617) 253-0108 or http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/index.html.
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. The author will discuss these and
other issues with NPR's Christopher Lydon.
"Rich Media, Poor Democracy" is more than a prolonged wake-up call; it shames
those who do nothing and motivates those who are trying to
build a more democratic media that reflects the all-important
non-commercial values which forge a just society
Ralph Nader
Hear the Forum LIVE. http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/mcchesney.ram
This event is brought to you by The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT and
authors@mit(TM), a series sponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT
Press Bookstore.
