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

By:

Schiller, Dan, 1951-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780262283137
0262283131
0585069336
9780585069333
9780262194174
0262194171
0262692333
9780262692335
026231181X
9780262311816
1282096893
9781282096899
9786612096891
6612096896

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digital capitalism.DDC classification:

303.48/33 21

LOC classification:

HM221 .S355 1999eb

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Contents:

The Neoliberal Networking Drive Originates in the United States -- Going Global: The Neoliberal Project in Transnational Telecommunications -- Brought to You by -- Networking the Higher-Learning Industry.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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