Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy by Jeff Chester - 2007-01-08

The New Press. Used - Very Good. . Former Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofi t job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

New Press, The, 2007-01-08. Hardcover. Good.

The New Press. Used - Like New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

The New Press. As New. 2007. Hardcover. 1565847954 . 8.3 X 5.7 X 1.2 inches; 304 pages .

New York, NY New Press, 2007. Hardcover First Ed; First Printing indicated. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ: Both book and DJ show only minor indications of use. Book shows light shelfwear; single page dog-eared; binding shows the slightest lean, while remaining perfectly secure; text clean. DJ shows moderate rubbing; price unclipped. Overall, close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 282pp. Hardback with DJ. How is it, the author asks, that every new communications technology, from radio to cable television, is hailed as the one that will make the media more democratic and then is almost immediately subverted (or perhaps perverted) by politics and big business? Chester, a longtime critic of media commercialization, explores how the newest technological breakthroughs, the digital media, could spell further disaster. Do we really want television sets that monitor what we watch? Or an Internet that knows what… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.