Digital capitalism

Description

"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. 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.

First Sentence

During the mid-1950s, near the beginning of the digital computer era, U.S. government agencies and educational institutions possessed perhaps three-quarters of the nation's several hundred computer installations.

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Other Editions

• Digital capitalism: networking the global market systemMIT Press1999-01-01
• Digital CapitalismPaperbackThe MIT Press2000-02-28