Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-
2. Wood, Ellen Meiksins.
3. Foster, John Bellamy.

Description

1. 254 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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 Age presents 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 Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.

Alternative title

1. Political economy of the global communication revolution

Subject

1. Information technology > Social aspects
2. Computers > Social aspects
3. Capitalism
4. Capitalism
5. Computers > Social aspects
6. Information technology > Social aspects
7. Informatietechnologie
8. Kapitalisme
9. Informatiemaatschappij
10. communication
11. telecommunications
12. information
13. mass media
14. information technology
15. capitalism
16. international market
17. economic theory
18. Internet
19. multinational enterprise
20. monopoly
21. marketing
22. income distribution
23. legal aspect
24. privatization
25. educational television
26. advertising
27. business organization
28. telework
29. telephone
30. deregulation
31. democracy
32. statistical table
33. télécommunications
34. mass média
35. technologie de l'information
36. capitalisme
37. marché international
38. théorie économique
39. entreprise multinationale
40. monopole
41. répartition du revenu
42. aspect juridique
43. privatisation
44. télévision éducative
45. réclame
46. organisation de l'entreprise
47. télétravail
48. téléphone
49. déréglementation
50. démocratie
51. tableau statistique
52. comunicación
53. telecomunicaciones
54. información
55. medios de comunicación de masas
56. tecnología de la información
57. capitalismo
58. mercado internacional
59. teoría económica
60. empresa multinacional
61. monopolio
62. mercadotecnia
63. distribución del ingreso
64. aspecto jurídico
65. privatización
66. televisión educativa
67. propaganda
68. organización de la empresa
69. teletrabajo
70. teléfono
71. desreglamentación
72. democracia
73. cuadros estadísticos
74. Canada
75. developed countries
76. developing countries
77. pays développés
78. pays en développement
79. Canadá
80. países desarrollados
81. países en desarrollo

Contents

1. The political economy of global communication / Robert W. McChesney -- Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism? / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- Virtual capitalism / Michael Dawson and John Bellamy Foster -- Global village or cultural pillage? : the unequal inheritance of the communications revolution / Peter Golding -- Challenging capitalism in cyberspace: the information highway, the postindustrial economy, and people / Heather Menzies -- The U.S. rules, OK? telecommunications since the 1940s / Jill Hills -- The privatization of telecommunications / Nicholas Baran -- Selling our children: channel one and the politics of education / Michael W. Apple -- Work, new technology, and capitalism / Peter Meiksins -- Fighting neoliberalism in Canadian telecommunications / Elaine Bernard and Sid Shniad -- Propaganda and control of the public mind / Noam Chomsky -- The propaganda model revisited / Edward Herman -- Democracy and the new technologies / Ken Hirschkop -- Information technology and socialist self-management / Andy Pollack.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.