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Digital depression : information technology and economic crisis /

"The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schiller, Dan, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Colección:Geopolitics of information.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A contradictory moment
  • Network connectivity and labor systems
  • Networked production and reconstructed commodity chains
  • Networked financialization
  • Networked militarization
  • The historical run-up
  • Web communications commodity chains
  • Services and applications
  • The sponsor system resurgent
  • Growth amid depression?
  • A struggle for growth
  • "A new foreign policy imperative"
  • Taking care of business: the internet at the U.S. commerce department
  • Beyond a U.S.-centric internet?
  • Accumulation and repression
  • From geopolitics to social and political struggle.