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Victor Pickard: America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of
Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform
CAMRI Seminar
Wed Nov 19, 14:00
Univ. of Westminster
Harrow Campus
Room A7.01
Registration is possible until Nov 17 per e-mail to [log in to unmask]
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/victor-pickard-americas-battle-for-media-democracy-the-triumph-of-corporate-libertarianism-and-the-future-of-media-reform
In this talk, Victor Pickard presents his new book "America's Battle for
Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future
of Media Reform" that has just bene publised.
Why do American media have so few public interest regulations? How did
the American media system become dominated by a few corporations, and
why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in
media policy discourse?
By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy
battles in the 1940s, Victor Pickard's book explains how this happened
and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the
book uncovers the American media system’s historical roots and normative
foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform
movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the
present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies
for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.
Victor Pickard is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he taught
media studies at NYU and the University of Virginia, and he worked on
media policy in Washington, D.C. as a Senior Research Fellow at the
media reform organization Free Press, the public policy think tank the
New America Foundation, and Congresswoman Diane Watson’s office.
He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the
history and political economy of media institutions and media reform
activism. His op-eds on media policy debates and the future of
journalism have appeared in news outlets like The Guardian, The Seattle
Times, The Huffington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the
editor (with Robert McChesney) of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out
the Lights, and the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy.
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