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Robert W. McChesney is a researcher affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their academic work spans several topics primarily within the social sciences, focusing on the intersection of media, politics, and communication.

Their research prominently covers areas such as:

  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Media
  • Social Media and Politics

These thematic interests are reflected in their publications and the venues where their work appears. McChesney has contributed to journals and presses including:

  • Monthly Review
  • Fordham University Press eBooks

Notable recent papers include:

  • "INDEX," published in 2020 by Fordham University Press eBooks
  • "Socialism-A Time to Retreat?" published in 2024 in Monthly Review (authored by Harry Magdoff, but listed among related works)
  • "Neoliberalism and Neofascism," published in 2025 in Monthly Review

In addition to journal articles, McChesney has published books through Fordham University Press. One significant book is "Strategies for Media Reform" from 2020, aligning with their focus on media and communication reforms.

Their frequent collaborators include scholars with whom they have worked on multiple occasions, indicating ongoing professional relationships. These coauthors are:

  • Ellen Goodman
  • Allen Hammond
  • Robert Horwitz
  • Donald Mcgannon
  • Everett Parker

McChesney's research contributes to subfields such as Communication and Political Science and International Relations. Their body of work synthesizes these disciplines to explore how media dynamics interact with political processes and policy issues.

Best Publications

  • Rich media, poor democracy : communication politics in dubious times

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • The global media : the new missionaries of corporate capitalism

    Edward S. Herman;Robert Waterman McChesney

  • Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again

    Robert Waterman McChesney;John Nichols

  • Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism

    Robert W. McChesney

  • The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W McChesney

  • Rich Media, Poor Democracy

    Robert Waterman McChesney;Mark Crispin Miller

  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    Robert Waterman McChesney;Victor W. Pickard

  • The problem of journalism: A political economic contribution to an explanation of the crisis in contemporary US journalism

    Robert W. McCHESNEY

  • The political economy of communication and the future of the field

    Robert W. McChesney

  • Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media

    Robert Waterman McChesney;John Nichols

  • Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy

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  • The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney;R. Jamil Jonna

  • The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    Robert Waterman McChesney

  • The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century

    Robert McChesney

  • The Political Economy of Communication

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  • The endless crisis

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney

  • Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney;R. Jamil Jonna

  • The Internationalization of Monopoly Capital

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney;R. Jamil Jonna

  • Surveillance Capitalism: Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney

  • The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney

  • Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism

    Robert W. McChesney

  • FAREWELL TO JOURNALISM?: Time for a rethinking

    Robert W. McChesney

  • Monopoly-Finance Capital and the Paradox of Accumulation

    John Bellamy Foster;Robert W. McChesney

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