Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution

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Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution

Author(s): Ellen Meiksins Wood (Editor), John Bellamy Foster (Editor), Robert W. McChesney (Editor)

  • Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
  • Publication Date: 1 Jun. 1997
  • Edition: Illustrated
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 224 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0853459894
  • ISBN-13: 9780853459897

Book Description

Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.
Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of "globalization." How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself?
Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.

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About the Author

Robert W. McChesney is professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy and Our Media, Not Theirs, and co-editor of Monthly Review.

Ellen Meiksins Wood is co-editor of Monthly Review; author of many books, including The Pristine Culture of Capitalism (1991) and Democracy Against Capitalism (1995); and co-editor of In Defense of History (1995).

John Bellamy Foster is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature, which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.

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