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Digital capitalism : networking the global market system / / Dan Schiller



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Autore: Schiller Dan <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Digital capitalism : networking the global market system / / Dan Schiller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
Disciplina: 303.48/33
Soggetto topico: Information society
Electronic commerce - Social aspects
International economic integration
Information superhighway
Internet - Social aspects
Telecommunication - History
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: Schiller traces the transformation of the Internet from government, military, and educational tool to agent of "digital capitalism" through three critically important and interlinked realms.The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growing number of these networks began to serve primarily corporate users. Under the sway of an expansionary market logic, the Internet began a political-economic transition toward what Dan Schiller calls "digital capitalism."Schiller traces these metamorphoses through three critically important and interlinked realms. Parts I and II deal with the overwhelmingly "neoliberal" or market-driven policies that influence and govern the telecommunications system and their empowerment of transnational corporations while at the same time exacerbating exisiting social inequalities. Part III shows how cyberspace offers uniquely supple instruments with which to cultivate and deepen consumerism on a transnational scale, especially among privileged groups. Finally, Part IV shows how digital capitalism has already overtaken education, placing it at the mercy of a proprietary market logic.
Titolo autorizzato: Digital capitalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-31181-X
0-262-28313-1
0-585-06933-6
1-282-09689-3
9786612096891
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819173803321
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