Invisible crises
Subtitle: what conglomerate control of media means for America and the world
By: edited by George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana, Herbert I. Schiller.
Contributors: Gerbner, George.; Mowlana, Hamid I., 1937-; Schiller, Herbert I., 1919-
Series: Critical studies in communication and in the cultural industries
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Mass media -- Ownership; Mass media -- Political aspects; Mass media -- Social aspects; Mass media and technology
Description: Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence even more than the crises we know about - or think we know about.

These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the industrial world; the costly neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; and media-assisted make-believe image politics corrupting the electorial process.

The contributors to this volume - exploring such unattended crises, analyzing why they are hidden, and focusing on the increasing concentration of culture-power that keeps them from view - maintain that a profound general crisis of social vision, public communication, and representative government underlies all of the invisible crises.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index.

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