Digital Depression

Information Technology and Economic Crisis

Dan Schiller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2014
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08032-6 (ISBN)

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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.

The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse. In Digital Depression, Dan Schiller delves into the ways networked systems and ICTs have transformed global capitalism during the so-called Great Recession. He focuses on capitalism's crisis tendencies to confront the contradictory matrix of a technological revolution and economic stagnation making up the current political economy and demonstrates digital technology's central role in the global political economy. As he shows, the forces at the core of capitalism--exploitation, commodification, and inequality--are ongoing and accelerating within the networked political economy.

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.

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Contradictory MomentPart I: Digital Capitalism's Ascent to Crisis1. Network Connectivity and Labor Systems2. Networked Production and Reconstructed Commodity Chains3. Networked Financialization4. Networked MilitarizationPart II: The Recomposition of Communications5. The Historical Run-Up6. Web Communications Commodity Chains7. Services and Applications8. The Sponsor System Resurgent9. Growth amid DepressionPart III: Geopolitics and Social Purpose10. A Struggle for Growth11. A "New Foreign Policy Imperative"12. Taking Care of Business: The Internet at the U.S. Commerce Department13. Beyond a U.S.-centric Internet?14. Accumulation and Repression15. From Geopolitics to Social and Political StruggleNotesIndex

Reihe/Serie	Geopolitics of Information
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-252-08032-7 / 0252080327
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08032-6 / 9780252080326
Zustand	Neuware