Digital Capitalism
First published 1999
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"Under the sway of an expansionary market logic, the Internet began a political-economic transition toward what Dan Schiller calls "digital capitalism.""--BOOK JACKET.
"Schiller traces these metamorphoses through three critically important and interlinked realms.
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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 existing 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."
--BOOK JACKET.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Dan Schiller
- First published
- 1999
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780262692335