COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION: CRITICAL JUNCTURES AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA
Book ID/图书代码： 07B16722
English Summary/英文概要： In this brilliant new book, Robert W. McChesney, one of America’s leading media scholars and activists, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media criticism and scholarship.
McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution that is at the center of twenty-first-century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part, because our media criticism and media scholarship have not been up to the task. Why is media not at the center of political debate? Why are students of the media considered second-class scholars?
With a concise history of media studies, McChesney explains the important work of analysts like Noam Chomsky, Marshall McLuhan, and Alexander Meiklejohn, while showing how communication scholarship grew increasingly irrelevant in recent years, even as media became a decisive issue of our times. Now the burgeoning media reform movement, in which McChesney has been a key player, has made it even more clear that the revolution in communication demands a political and intellectual revolution as well.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书的作者Robert W. McChesney是美国最著名的媒体研究学者、活动家，他在本书中利用自己的权威分析和精彩的历史知识，对媒体批评及学术进行了深入的分析。
McChesney解释了为什么说我们正身处于21世纪生活中心的传播革命之中。而人们并未完全理解这一深刻的转折点，因为我们的媒体批评和学术并未完成这一任务。为什么媒体没有成为政治辩论的中心？为什么媒体专业的学生被认为是二等学者？
作者简要总结了一下媒体研究的历史，并指出，虽然媒体已经成为这个时代的关键因素，但传播学仍在在变得边缘化。目前正在萌芽的媒体改革运动已经表明，传播改革同样需要政治及知识改革。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Robert W. McChesney，伊利诺伊大学传播学系研究教授。著有多部媒体方面的著作，包括获奖图书《富有的媒体，贫穷的民主（Rich Media, Poor Democracy）》，与Ben Scott合作编辑的合辑《我们不自由的出版：100年激进媒体批评（Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism）》。目前居住在伊利诺伊的厄巴纳。
Robert W. McChesney is a research professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on the media, including the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy, and co-editor (with Ben Scott) of the collection Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism (both available from The New Press). He lives in Urbana, Illinois.
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