{"title":"Information inequality","authors":"H. Schiller","doi":"10.4324/9780203873212","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"From the Publisher: \nHerbert 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 \ninstitutions: 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. \nliteracy.... The book provides a concise and poignant 50-year history of cultural and informational institutions in the United States.... All who are concerned about these issues must study this book (Journal of Governemtn Information)","PeriodicalId":212443,"journal":{"name":"Research Handbook on Information Policy","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"29","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Research Handbook on Information Policy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203873212","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
From the Publisher:
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.
literacy.... The book provides a concise and poignant 50-year history of cultural and informational institutions in the United States.... All who are concerned about these issues must study this book (Journal of Governemtn Information)