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.
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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
About the author
Dan Schiller
Summary
Delves into the ways networked systems and information and communications technologies (ICTs) have transformed global capitalism during the so-called Great Recession. This book shows, the forces at the core of capitalism - exploitation, commodification, and inequality - are ongoing and accelerating within the networked political economy.
