In the age of the spectacle, democracy has never looked so bleak. Our world, saturated with media and marketing, endlessly confronts us with spectacles vying fo

Douglas Kellner's Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy: 9/11, the War on Iraq, and Election 2004 investigates the role of the media in the momentous poli

The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are inste

Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public interest more effectively

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications