Market Killing: What the free market does and what social scientists can do
about it
By Greg Philo and David Miller
This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the
twentieth century produced a rise in inequality and violence, the
development of a huge criminal economy ad the degradation of social and
cultural life.
It questions the silence of academics in the face of these changes and asks
how much they have been incorporated into the priorities of commerce and
governments. Many academics in the social sciences and media and cultural
studies have avoided critical issues and become occupied in obscure
theoretical debates such as post-modernism. The book contains a detailed
analysis of the post-modern turn and looks specifically at related areas
such as the active audience, discursive practice, popular culture, identity
and difference, the focus on pleasure and consumption. The authors argue
that the effect of much of this work was to draw intellectuals and students
away from the engaged and empirical work needed to identify key social
problems and possibilities for change.
The authors point to the need for independent research which can criticise
political policies and reveal their effects. It also examines the
possibilities for a free and democratic media and calls for the development
of critical and open public debate.
With additional essays by Noam Chomsky, Derek Bouse Angela McRobbie, John
Corner, Chris Hamnett, Andrew Gamble, Philip Schlesinger, Barbara Epstein,
James Curran, Danny Schechter and Hilary Wainwright
Greg Philo is Research Director of the Glasgow University Media Unit,
University of Glasgow
David Miller is a member of Stirling Media Research Institute, University of
Stirling.
Market Killing is published by Longman on the 23rd October 2000, 262 pages,
priced £16.99.
Links : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/058238236X
http://www.pearsoneduc.com/titles/058238236x.html
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