TALK: Media and Politics in the United States Today
Robert McChesney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sunday, February 13 / 3:00 PM / Free
Corwin Pavilion, UCSB
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Dr. Robert McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He has published 10 books, over 125 journal articles and book chapters, over 150 newspaper/magazine articles/book reviews, over 420 conference presentations, and 600 radio and TV appearances. This talk is part of the Center for Film, Television and New Media’s Media Ownership series. For other speakers and activities in the series, see: www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/events.html

This series is sponsored by The Center for Film, Television and New Media; The Critical Issues in America Endowment, College of Letters & Science; the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication; the Department of Film Studies and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

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