Communication For and Against Democracy - Hardcover

Raboy, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0921689470 ISBN 13: 9780921689478

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 1989

Synopsis

Addresses different aspects of the "communication question", bringing out the ways in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at other times as a support for human emancipation. Essays written by international scholars and activists. "These essays do much to increase reader awareness of the "mediatization" of society."--Choice

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About the Author

Marc Raboy is Professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. A former journalist in a wide variety of media, educated at McGill with a Ph.D. in communication, he is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on media and communication policy, as well as reports for such organizations as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation and the European Broadcasting Union. He serves on the council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research and is a founding member of the campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0921689470
• ISBN 13: 9780921689478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248