{"product_id":"9781565849754","title":"Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times","description":"Rich Media, Poor Democracy addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times. Challenging the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information \"choices\" is ipso facto a democratic one, McChesney argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. This concentrated corporate control, McChesney maintains, is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy.  ","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054683603184,"sku":"9781565849754","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781565849754_p0.jpg?v=1769899791","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781565849754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}