Media Studies
The growth of mass media and the means of communication have done for the shaping and production of consciousness what the industrial revolution has done for material goods and the growth of society's productive forces. With even further radical changes brought about by the many-to-many modes of communication on the internet, media studies is even more critical to social change
Danny Schechter on Reality Asserts Itself
Journalist, filmmaker, activist Danny Schechter "The Media Dissector", tells Paul Jay what brought him to South Africa, the fight against apartheid and meeting and chronicling Mandela
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THE DISINFORMATION AGE: A REVOLUTION IN PROPAGANDA. Troll farms, bots, dark ads, fake news ... from Putin’s Russia to Brexit Britain, new methods are being used to change politics and crush dissent. It’s time to fight back. By Peter Pomerantsev in The Guardian.
Edward Bernays' 'Propaganda' as a free download'This is the main manual of the public relations industry. Bernays is kind of the guru. He was an authentic Roosevelt/Kennedy liberal. He also engineered the public relations effort behind the U.S.-backed coup which overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala.' -Noam ChomskyAccess Here