Herbert Irving Schiller (November 5, 1919 - January 29, 2000) was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University. Schiller 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.source
Books
- Mind Managers (1972).
- Mass Communications and American Empire
- The Ideology of International Communications (Monograph Series / Institute for Media Analysis, Inc, No. 4)
- Mass Communications and American Empire (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)
- Super-state; readings in the military-industrial complex
- Communication and Cultural Domination (1976)
- Living in the Number One Country : Reflections from a Critic of American Empire
- (1981)
- Information and the Crisis Economy (1984)
- (1989)
- (1996)
External links
- UCSD Department of Communication
- The Information Superhighway: Paving Over the Public. Interview with Herbert Schiller from Z Magazine, March 1994
- Understanding Information Media in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Contributions of Herbert Schiller
- Noted UC San Diego Communication Scholar, Media Critic Herb Schiller Dies
