The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled

Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War In The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective

Business & Money

Schiller, Herbert

Mowlana, Hamid

Gerbner, George

Industries

Routledge

Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Herbert Schiller, long one of America's leading critics of the communications industry, here offers a salvo in the battle over information. In Information Inequality he explains how privatization and the corporate economy directly affect our most highly prized democratic institutions: schools and libraries, media, and political culture. A master media-watcher, Schiller presents a crisp and far-reaching indictment of the "data deprivation" corporate interests are inflicting on the social fabric.

Information Inequality

Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America

Mass Communications And American Empire: Second Edition, Updated (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)

Originally published in 1969, this book laid out the dimensions of American global domination, emphasizing the role of media-cultural power. This updated edition concludes that the early forms of American cultural imperialism have been transformed into an institutionalized brand of transnational cultural power that propagates and disseminates the ethos of consumption to the world-at-large.

Westview Press

An excellent addition to the critical communications research literature, Schiller's book presents a comprehensive treatment that critically examines the structure and policy of mass communications in the United States in relation to their most important functions: the economic and political. Lightning Print On Demand Title

The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled for this book suggest that it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but rather imagery orchestrated to convey a sense of triumph and thus to achieve results that reality and reason could never have achieved.The book offers contributions from thirty-four authors in eighteen countries, including short samplings from the media of several regions. The authors explore the social, economic, and political context of media coverage in their countries, the domination of one image in most of them, and the struggle for alternative perspectives. The authors probe the dynamics of image-making and pose some challenges for the future as well as provide us with a unique glimpse of how the world outside of the United States (as well as many Americans) viewed the war in the Persian Gulf and how the dynamics of image-making and information control operate. Triumph of the Image will be useful to scholars and students in communications and mass media, international relations, political science, cultural studies, propaganda, censorship, and contemporary history as well as to the general public.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Indust)

Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know about—or think we know about. These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the industrial world; the costly neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; and media-assisted make-believe image politics corrupting the electoral process.Deprived of sustained attention but bombarded by eruptions of surface consequences (often presented as unique events stripped of historical context), people ar bewildered, fearful, angry, and cynical.The contributors to this volume—exploring such unattended crises, analyzing why they are hidden, and focusing on the increasing concentration of culture-power that keeps them from view—maintain that a profound general crisis of social vision, public communication, and representative government underlies all of the invisible crises.

Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)

Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence more than the crises we know about—or think we know about. These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the industrial world; the costly neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; and media-assisted make-believe image politics corrupting the electoral process.Deprived of sustained attention but bombarded by eruptions of surface consequences (often presented as unique events stripped of historical context), people ar bewildered, fearful, angry, and cynical.The contributors to this volume—exploring such unattended crises, analyzing why they are hidden, and focusing on the increasing concentration of culture-power that keeps them from view—maintain that a profound general crisis of social vision, public communication, and representative government underlies all of the invisible crises.

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History

Americas

Morningside House

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Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War In The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective

Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World

Information Inequality

Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America

Mass Communications And American Empire: Second Edition, Updated (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)

Mass Communications And American Empire: Second Edition, Updated (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)

Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War In The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective

Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)

Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control Of Media Means For America And The World (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Indust)

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