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'''Herbert Irving Schiller''' (5 November 1919 - 29 January 2000) was an American media critic, theoretician, sociologist, author, and scholar.  He taught at UC San Diego, the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), Univ. of Illinois-Urbana, and the Univ. of Amsterdam.
 
'''Herbert Irving Schiller''' (5 November 1919 - 29 January 2000) was an American media critic, theoretician, sociologist, author, and scholar.  He taught at UC San Diego, the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), Univ. of Illinois-Urbana, and the Univ. of Amsterdam.
  
Schiller warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. 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.[http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/dschiller_obit.htm source]
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Schiller warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. 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.[http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/dschiller_obit.htm]
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==
 
==Books==
 
==Books==

Latest revision as of 12:20, 10 March 2015

Herbert Irving Schiller (5 November 1919 - 29 January 2000) was an American media critic, theoretician, sociologist, author, and scholar. He taught at UC San Diego, the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), Univ. of Illinois-Urbana, and the Univ. of Amsterdam.

Schiller warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. 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.[1]

Publications

Books

  • Herbert I. Schiller, Mass Communications and American Empire, WestView Press, (original: 1962; updated 1992).
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Mind Managers, Beacon Press, 1973.
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Communication and Cultural Domination, 1976.
  • Hamid Mowlana, George Gerbner and Herbert I. Schiller (editors), Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf -- A Global Perspective, WestView Press, 1992.
  • Herbert I. Schiller, The Ideology of International Communications (Monograph Series / Institute for Media Analysis, Inc, No. 4)
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Mass Communications and American Empire (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Super-state; readings in the military-industrial complex
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Living in the Number One Country: Reflections from a Critic of American Empire.
  • William Preston, Jr., Edward S. Herman, and Herbert I. Schiller, Hope & Folly: The United States and UNESCO 1945-1985, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1989.
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Who Knows : Information in the Age of the Fortune 500, 1981.
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Information and the Crisis Economy, Ablex Publishing 1984 (Oxford Univ. Press 1986).
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression, Oxford Univ. Press, 1989.
  • Herbert I. Schiller, Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America, 1996.