Dan Schiller

Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

Dan Schiller is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of How to Think About Information and Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System.

Produktdetails

• Geopolitics of Information
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780252080326
• ISBN-10: 0252080327
• Artikelnr.: 40821524

Autorenporträt

Dan Schiller

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Contradictory Moment
Part I: Digital Capitalism's Ascent to Crisis
1. Network Connectivity and Labor Systems
2. Networked Production and Reconstructed Commodity Chains
3. Networked Financialization
4. Networked Militarization
Part II: The Recomposition of Communications
5. The Historical Run-Up
6. Web Communications Commodity Chains
7. Services and Applications
8. The Sponsor System Resurgent
9. Growth amid Depression
Part III: Geopolitics and Social Purpose
10. A Struggle for Growth
11. A "New Foreign Policy Imperative"
12. Taking Care of Business: The Internet at the U.S. Commerce Department
13. Beyond a U.S.-centric Internet?
14. Accumulation and Repression
15. From Geopolitics to Social and Political Struggle
Notes
Index