Digital Depression : Information Technology and Economic Crisis /

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"A contradiction coils through the political economy: that today's financial and economic crisis began in the historical heartland of advanced information and communications technology (ICTs): the United States. It was not supposed to turn out this way. ICTs were to be the source of econom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiller, Dan, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Informatietechnologie.
Financiële crises.
Wirtschaftswachstum
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Technische Innovation
Informationstechnik
Finanzkrise
Information technology.
Economic policy.
Economic development > Technological innovations.
Electronic data processing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Computer Industry.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
information technology.
Crise financiere mondiale, 2008-2009.
Developpement economique > Innovations.
Politique economique.
Technologie de l'information.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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