The death of public knowledge? : : how free markets destroy the general intellect / / edited by Aeron Davis.

• TeilnehmendeR: edited by Aeron Davis.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Goldsmiths Press,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages)

Table of Contents

• Section one. Public news media
• Does public media enhance citizen knowledge? : sifting through the evidence / Toril Aalberg
• The impact of austerity on the Greek news media and public sphere / Aris Nikolaidis
• Impoverishing the mediated public sphere in Aotearoa New Zealand / Wayne Hope
• Public-commercial hybridity at BBC world online / Kate Wright
• The new American media landscape / Rod Benson
• Section two. Public knowledge in Britain
• The autonomous school, the strong state, the problems of education / Ken Jones
• The treasury view of higher education: variable human capital investment / Andrew McGettigan
• The coalition government's cuts to legal aid : who is counting the cost? / Roger Smith
• Public libraries in the age of austerity : the gloves are off / Ian Anstice
• Section three. The corruption of news and information in markets
• The edge : investment banks and information flows in public markets / Philip Augar
• The libor scandal : mediation and information issues / Peter Thompson
• The press, market ideologies and the Irish housing crash / Henry Silke
• Section four. The encroachment of private knowledge on public policy-making
• The corporate takeover of economic discourse in Korea / Bong-hyun Lee
• The tropes of unlearning : UK responses to outsourcing fiascos / Mick Moran and Karel Williams
• Meet the new American influence elites / Janine Wedel
• Public knowledge and health policy / Colin Leys
• Conclusion: manifesto for public knowledge / Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg.