
- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent.
Following the media criticism tradition of Habermas and Chomsky, among others, the book shows how anger can motivate news consumption as the principle of divide-and-rule in the online media of the 21st century is systematically applied. The author posits that media addiction increases interest, therefore deliberate distortion of facts and the manufacture of dissent provide the media with a larger audience and this becomes the business model.
This insightful volume will interest researchers, scholars, and students of media economics, political economy of media, digital media, propaganda, mass communication, and media literacy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: the Civil Cold War online
- 1 Changing the paradigm of mass communication
- 2 Dissent and the theory of mass communication
- 3 Digital media as a risk to democracy
- 4 Mass media as dissent manufacture
- Conclusion: the dissent of the governed
- Index