Saving the Media
Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy
$32.79
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
4 April 2016
Summary
The media are in crisis. Confronted by growing competition and sagging advertising revenue, news operations in print, on radio and TV, and even online are struggling to reinvent themselves. Many have gone under. For too many others, the answer has been to lay off reporters, join conglomerates, and lean more heavily on generic content. The result: in a world awash with information, news organizations provide citizens with less and less in-depth reporting and a narrowing range of viewpoints.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674659759 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0674659759 |
| Author: | Julia Cagé, Arthur Goldhammer |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | The Belknap Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 111mm x 181mm |
Critics Review
Saving the Media provides an excellent portrayal of the economic challenges facing the news media, newspapers in particular, and the implications these have on our democratic institutions.
[A] lucid and succinct analysis…Saving the Media is an essential and timely contribution to a debate with high stakes—democracy itself. – Vanessa Baird * New Internationalist *
Intelligent, daring, even revolutionary—these are the three adjectives that could describe this new book by Julia Cagé. * L’Expansion *
For economist Julia Cagé, the crisis of the media is primarily a problem of funding. In this new book, she imagines a participatory model that guarantees the freedom and independence of the press. * Libération *
In this concise, detailed, and very accessible book, Julia Cagé dissects the world of the media…to find a new economic and democratic model in the digital age. * Le Républicain Lorrain *
Saving the Media provides an excellent portrayal of the economic challenges facing the news media, newspapers in particular, and the implications these have on our democratic institutions. – Henry Milner, University of Montreal
Offers a thought-provoking, meticulously researched and persuasively argued intervention into the heart of the contemporary media crisis. – Hans Rollman * PopMatters *
Saving the Media is an informative and lively read with a well-balanced mix of facts and statistics. – Gillian Youngs * Times Higher Education *
Julia Cagé
Julia Cagé is Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris. A specialist in media economics, political economy, and economic history, she is the author of Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy.
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