Capitalism and the information age
Subtitle: the political economy of the global communication revolution
By: edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster.
Contributors: McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-; Wood, Ellen Meiksins.; Foster, John Bellamy.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Information technology -- Social aspects; Computers -- Social aspects; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political economy of global communication / Robert W. McChesney; title: Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism? / Ellen Meiksins Wood; title: Virtual capitalism / Michael Dawson and John Bellamy Foster; title: Global village or cultural pillage? : the unequal inheritance of the communications revolution / Peter Golding; title: Challenging capitalism in cyberspace: the information highway, the postindustrial economy, and people / Heather Menzies; title: The U.S. rules, OK? telecommunications since the 1940s / Jill Hills; title: The privatization of telecommunications / Nicholas Baran; title: Selling our children: channel one and the politics of education / Michael W. Apple; title: Work, new technology, and capitalism / Peter Meiksins; title: Fighting neoliberalism in Canadian telecommunications / Elaine Bernard and Sid Shniad; title: Propaganda and control of the public mind / Noam Chomsky; title: The propaganda model revisited / Edward Herman; title: Democracy and the new technologies / Ken Hirschkop; title: Information technology and socialist self-management / Andy Pollack.