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<div>A PARADIGM-SHIFTING ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE INTERNET AND THE ECONOMY FROM THE CELEBRATED SCHOLAR AND
AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR</div>
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<div>Robert McChesney is one of the nation’s most important
analysts of the media.</div>
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<div>Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable
analyses of the Internet’s effect on us and our world,
oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But
according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail
to address the relationship between economic power and the
Internet.</div>
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<div>McChesney’s award-winning<em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rich Media, Poor
Democracy</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>skewered
the assumption that a society drenched in commercial
information is a democratic one. In<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Digital </em><em>Disconnect</em>,
McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the
advances of the digital age. He argues that the sharp decline
in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in
patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and
massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the
Internet a place of numbing commercialism. A handful of
monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google,
which garners a 97 percent share of the mobile search market,
to Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90
percent of the world’s computers. </div>
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<div>Capitalism’s colonization of the Internet has spurred the
collapse of credible journalism and made the internet an
unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate
surveillance and a disturbingly antidemocratic force.</div>
<div>In<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Digital
Disconnect</em>, Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking
critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the
democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we
still can.</div>
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<div><strong>Robert W. McChesney</strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the Gutgsell
endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author
of several books on the media, including the award-winning R<em>ich
Media, Poor Democracy </em>and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Communication
Revolution</em>, and a co-editor (with Victor Pickard) of<em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will the Last </em><em>Reporter
Please Turn Out the Lights</em>. He lives in Champaign,
Illinois.</div>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Spring 2013<br>
<label style="font-weight: bold;">Format:</label><span
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<label style="font-weight: bold;">Trim:</label><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 320 pages<br>
<label style="font-weight: bold;">ISBN:</label><span
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