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November 20, 2007
Mark Lloyd, '78
Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, University of Illinois Press, 2007.
The book: Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. He argues that citizens' political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the US communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the founder's communications environment and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.
The author: Mark Lloyd is senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a professor of public policy at Georgetown University. He is both a communications lawyer and an award-winning broadcast journalist.
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM