Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America

by Mark Lloyd

Book Overview

"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both."--James Madison, 1822

Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens' political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252073428
• ISBN13: 9780252073427
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"