Media Matters with Bob McChesney
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Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions.
Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The media are central to all our lives," he says. "Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society."
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Janice Peck, auther of The Age of Oprah: The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era
This week our guest is Janice Peck. An Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, her research interests include critical theory, the relationship of media and society, the social meanings and political implications of mediated popular culture, communication history and theories of media and culture.
She is author of a book on the history and politics of religious television in the U.S., The Gods of Televangelism: The Crisis of Meaning and the Appeal of Religious Television (1993) and a forthcoming book The Age of Oprah: The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era, an examination of examination of the place of Oprah Winfrey's media enterprise in the last quarter century of U.S. culture and politics (in press).
She has published articles and book chapters on the theoretical and intellectual history of cultural studies, issues in media theory, the family and television, TV talk shows, Oprah's Book Club and issues of literacy, religion and advertising, and representations of race in media.
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The role of media plays a vital role in third world countries and ones controlled by autocrats. Its interesting how wide our divide of information access will become in the following decades.
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