Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media

This book was written to provide evidence of how and why the American media system is failing to fulfil its role as an institution of American constitutional democracy. The author argues that this is a moment - a "critical juncture" - to make changes to the system. As a history of media studies, the book intends "to show how communication scholarship has grown increasingly irrelevant in recent years" and to call for a transformation in thinking about media. Using historical knowledge in the field of media criticism and scholarship, the author has written a book that is part media critique, part intellectual history, part personal memoir, and part manifesto, recommending that citizens decide whether the "communications revolution" will be a corporate monopoly or a step toward an informed public.