Herbert Irving Schiller (November 5, 1919 - January 29, 2000) was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University. Schiller warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and US corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society.source. Books • Mind Managers (1972). • Mass Communications and American Empire • The Ideology of International Communications (Monograph Series / Institute for Media Analysis, Inc, No. 4) • Mass Communications and American Empire (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries) • Super-state; readings in the military-industrial complex • Communication and Cultural Domination (1976) • Living in the Number One Country : Reflections from a Critic of American Empire • Who Knows : Information in the Age of the Fortune 500 (1981) • Information and the Crisis Economy (1984) • Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression (1989) • Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America (1996) [edit] External links • UCSD Department of Communication • The Information Superhighway: Paving Over the Public. Interview with Herbert Schiller ...
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