In this Book
- Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Geopolitics of Information
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Part I: Digital Capitalism's Ascent to Crisis
- 3. Networked Financialization
- pp. 43-56
- 4. Networked Militarization
- pp. 57-70
- Part II: The Recomposition of Communications
- 5. The Historical Run-Up
- pp. 73-82
- 6. Web Communications Commodity Chains
- pp. 83-114
- 7. Services and Applications
- pp. 115-124
- 8. The Sponsor System Resurgent
- pp. 125-141
- 9. Growth amid Depression
- pp. 142-148
- Part III: Geopolitics and Social Purpose
- 10. A Struggle for Growth
- pp. 151-160
- 11. A "New Foreign Policy Imperative"
- pp. 161-169
- 13. Beyond a U.S.-centric Internet?
- pp. 185-210
- 14. Accumulation and Repression
- pp. 211-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252096716
Related ISBN(s)
9780252038761, 9780252080326
MARC Record
OCLC
891719703
Pages
376
Launched on MUSE
2014-10-11
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2014