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Digital Destiny
Jeff Chester
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Description for Digital Destiny
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 136 x 203 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
With the explosive growth of the Internet, we now have the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news, information and culture, with control over content in the hands of the many rather than a few. But powerful communications companies have other plans. Assisted by a host of hired political operatives and pro-business policy makers, the big media providers are using their political clout to gain ever greater control over the Internet. Chester offers a clarion call for new media to serve public interests.
With the explosive growth of the Internet, we now have the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news, information and culture, with control over content in the hands of the many rather than a few. But powerful communications companies have other plans. Assisted by a host of hired political operatives and pro-business policy makers, the big media providers are using their political clout to gain ever greater control over the Internet. Chester offers a clarion call for new media to serve public interests.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595583437
SKU
V9781595583437
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Ref
99-15
About Jeff Chester
Jeff Chester is the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. He has long been on the front lines fighting against the consolidation and commercialization of the U.S. media system. A former investigative reporter and filmmaker, he lives outside Washington, D.C.
Reviews for Digital Destiny
"Jeff Chester is the Paul Revere of the media revolution. Read this book and you will understand the stakes." Bill Moyers "No other work as concisely and powerfully frames the democratic challenge that media policy presents. It is time people understood plainly just what is at stake. This book makes that understanding possible." Lawrence Lessig "Digital Destiny is ... Read more