| Description |
254 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Political economy of global communication / Robert W. McChesney -- Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism? / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- Virtual capitalism / Michael Dawson and John Bellamy Foster -- Global village or cultural pillage? : the unequal inheritance of the communications revolution / Peter Golding -- Challenging capitalism in cyberspace : the information highway, the postindustrial economy, and people / Heather Menzies -- U.S. rules, OK? telecommunications since the 1940s / Jill Hills -- Privatization of telecommunications / Nicholas Baran -- Selling our children : channel one and the politics of education / Michael W. Apple -- Work, new technology, and capitalism / Peter Meiksins -- Fighting neoliberalism in Canadian telecommunications / Elaine Bernard and Sid Shniad -- Propaganda and control of the public mind / Noam Chomsky -- Propaganda model revisited / Edward Herman -- Democracy and the new technologies / Ken Hirschkop -- Information technology and socialist self-management / Andy Pollack. |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Computers -- Social aspects.
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Capitalism.
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| Added Author |
McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952-
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Wood, Ellen Meiksins.
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Foster, John Bellamy.
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| ISBN |
0853459894 (paper) |
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0853459886 (cloth) |
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