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Benjamin Barber is this week's guest on Bob McChesney's Media Matters
CoThis week's guest on Media Matters is expected to be Benjamin Barber whose latest book is Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. The publisher describes the book as a "piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society."
Barber is a political theorist and a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy.
The weekly radio program Media Matters
features host Bob
McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests.
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.”
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.”
Every Sunday Media Matters' audio stream is accessible on the internet at 11 am Pacific Time, and it is normally archived and downloadable by Monday.
When live, listeners may call the program with comments or questions. The toll-free telephone number is 1-800-222-9455.
MORE INFO ABOUT BENJAMIN BARBER:
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Wikipedia Bio
Barber's website
Strong Democracy (Barber's Blog)
Politics of Education: An Interview with Benjamin Barber
LAST WEEK'S GUEST ON MEDIA MATTERS:
Last week's guest was Michael Albert, the editor of ZNet and also co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine.
SUNDAY MORNING'S STREAMING PROGRAM AND ALL PAST SHOWS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE MEDIA MATTERS WEB SITE:
For more information:
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/
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Barry Vogel at Radio Curious talks to Benjamin Barber.
"When we purchase and consume what we believe is necessary for our individual lives, do we obtain what we need or do we end up with what the forces of 21st century capitalism tell us we need? In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Benjamin Barber, author of "Consumed, How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole." The concepts of dumbing down the consumer and the development of brand devotion in the early years of a person's life are, among many other considerations, explored in this book. I spoke with Benjamin Barber from his home in New York City in early April 2007 and began our conversation by asking him to discuss how consumers are infantilized and targeted in way that there will never be enough shoppers."
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"When we purchase and consume what we believe is necessary for our individual lives, do we obtain what we need or do we end up with what the forces of 21st century capitalism tell us we need? In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Benjamin Barber, author of "Consumed, How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole." The concepts of dumbing down the consumer and the development of brand devotion in the early years of a person's life are, among many other considerations, explored in this book. I spoke with Benjamin Barber from his home in New York City in early April 2007 and began our conversation by asking him to discuss how consumers are infantilized and targeted in way that there will never be enough shoppers."
Visit Radio Curious:
http://www.radiocurious.org/index.htm
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For more information:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=prog...
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