Robert W Mcchesney: 11 books
Digital Disconnect
How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet’s effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital...
Blowing the Roof off the Twenty-First Century
Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new...
Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An updated edition of the “penetrating study” examining how the current state of mass media puts our democracy at risk (Noam Chomsky).
What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? After all...
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades...
The Death and Life of American Journalism
The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism...
People Get Ready
The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour—or its greatest moment
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling....
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
by Robert W. McChesney
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."—Susan J. Douglas, author of Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
The Endless Crisis
How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, hopes for a new phase of rapid economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high,...
Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational...
Strategies for Media Reform
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what...