Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis (Geopolitics of Information) - Softcover

Schiller, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252080327 ISBN 13: 9780252080326

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252080327
• ISBN 13: 9780252080326
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376