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Herb Schiller on the Selling of the New Technologies
In one of his many political monologues on PTTV, Herb Schiller critiques and questions the supposed benefits of the coming technological age. Schiller duly sheds light on the “computerization” of society, the merging of the academy and the corporation and the equal potential for transcendence and failure that the computer age offers us all. Schiller is the perfect blend of level-headed professorial presentation of the facts and the irreverent media industry myth smashing, a balance that is the hallmark of Paper Tiger productions. Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He warned of two major trends in his prolific writings and speeches: the private takeover of public space and public institutions at home, and U.S. corporate domination of cultural life abroad, especially in the developing nations. His eight books and hundreds of articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society.
1983 TRT: 28 minutes #50