Digital Depression
Information Technology and Economic Crisis
$76.25
- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2014
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252080326 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0252080327 |
| Author: | Dan Schiller |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 626g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Geopolitics of Information |
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Critics Review
“Drawing on excellent research across a range of fields, it provides the best book-length treatment of digital capitalism in the wake of the worldwide economic crisis that erupted in 2008 and offers the best map of the digital communications industry in current scholarship.” –Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World
About The Author
Dan Schiller
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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