Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America

by Herber Schiller

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.

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Grant]

“In this pervasive atmosphere of privately acquiring, processing, and selling information, the public library system, a long-standing custodian of the idea and practice, of information as a social good, is tottering. Its function is being redefined and stripped of its social character.” - Herbert Schiller, Information Inequality (1996)

An underrated classic, and certainly one of the best texts I read in grad school (and I read many).

[Leonardo]

Sobre las falsas promesas igualitarias de la “superautopista informática” en los Estados Unidos.

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[Rob McB]

A classic and still valuable