C. Edwin Baker (University of Pennsylvania)

Broschiertes Buch

Media Concentration and Democracy

Why Ownership Matters

Beschreibung

This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration. It emphasizes a democratic need to distribute communicative power more widely and to prevent abuse of media power. It also shows why ownership dispersal can be expected to improve the quality of media content.

Autor

C. Edwin Baker is the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has been on the faculty at Penn since 1981. He also taught at NYU, Chicago, Cornell, Texas, Oregon, and Toledo law schools and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and he was a staff attorney for the ACLU. He is the author of three earlier books: Media, Markets, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2002), which won the 2002 McGannon Communications Policy Research Award; Advertising and a Democratic Press (1994); and Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (1989). He has written more than fifty academic articles about free speech, equality, property, law and economics, jurisprudence, and the mass media, in addition to occasional popular commentary.

Produktdetails

• Communication, Society and Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780521687881
• ISBN-10: 0521687888
• Artikelnr.: 22706698