Talking Back: Citizen Feedback and Cable Technology

by Ithiel de Sola Pool

"We are flooded by a torrent of communication in contemporary society," Pool writes, "and yet we hear everywhere that there is a breakdown in communication. The average citizen spends more than four hours a day with mass media, while increasingly he doubts that his government listens to him or that what it tells him is credible.... One situation that clearly reduces the citizen's sense of potency is that the flood of communication is one way. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262160560
• ISBN13: 9780262160568
• Release Date: September 1973
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 325 Pages