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9780853459880

Capitalism and the Information Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780853459880

  • ISBN10:

    0853459886

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-01-01
  • Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

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Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself?Capitalism and the Information Agepresents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of "globalization." How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself?Capitalism and the Information Agepresents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.

Table of Contents

The Political Economy of Global Communication
1(26)
Robert W. McChesney
Modernity, Postmodernity, or Capitalism?
27(24)
Ellen Meiksins Wood
Virtual Capitalism
51(18)
Michael Dawson
John Bellamy Foster
Global Village or Cultural Pillage? The Unequal Inheritance of the Communications Revolution
69(18)
Peter Golding
Challenging Capitalism in Cyberspace: The Information Highway, the Postindustrial Economy, and People
87(12)
Heather Menzies
The U.S. Rules. OK? Telecommunications Since the 1940s
99(24)
Jill Hills
The Privatization of Telecommunications
123(12)
Nicholas Baran
Selling Our Children: Channel One and the Politics of Education
135(16)
Michael W. Apple
Work, New Technology, and Capitalism
151(14)
Peter Meiksins
Fighting Neoliberalism in Canadian Telecommunications
165(14)
Elaine Bernard
Sid Shniad
Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind
179(12)
Noam Chomsky
The Propaganda Model Revisited
191(16)
Edward Herman
Democracy and the New Technologies
207(12)
Ken Hirschkop
Information Technology and Socialist Self Management
219(18)
Andy Pollack
Contributors 237(2)
Index 239

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