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MARX'S ECOLOGY
THE VULNERABLE PLANET
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New and Expanded Essays
from a Special Issue of Monthly Review
CAPITALISM AND THE INFORMATION AGE
The Political Economy of the Global
Communication Revolution
edited by
Robert W. McChesney,
Ellen Meiksins Wood,
and John Bellamy Foster
“Anyone concerned about the
direction the information revolution is taking should read this book. The
subjects covered are far-ranging... [The] essays are clearly written, making
the book accessible to a broad range of readers. In short, highest
recommendation...”
— CHOICE
“Explains in very concrete terms how
the global communication revolution is still firmly controlled by capital, and
that the ‘freedom’ of expression we enjoy today is really shaped by a
few mega-corporations who own virtually all of the media and entertainment
industries.”
— DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
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 for 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. Taken together, the essays reveal how the new information
technologies have been "grafted onto a global capitalist system
characterized by vast and growing inequality, economic stagnation, market
saturation, financial instability, urban crisis, social polarization, graded
access to information, [and] economic degradation...."
Contents & Contributors
THE
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
Robert W. McChesney
MODERNITY, POSTMODERNITY, OR CAPITALISM?
Ellen Meiksins Wood
VIRTUAL CAPITALISM
Michael Dawson and John Bellamy Foster
DEMOCRACY AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Ken Hirschkop
GLOBAL VILLAGE OR CULTURAL PILLAGE?
THE UNEQUAL INHERITANCE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION
Peter Golding
THE U.S. RULES, OK?: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SINCE THE
1940s
Jill Hills
THE PRIVATIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Nicholas Baran
SELLING OUR CHILDREN: CHANNEL ONE AND THE POLITICS OF
EDUCATION
Michael W. Apple
CHALLENGING CAPITALISM IN CYBERSPACE:
THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY, THE POSTINDUSTRIAL ECONOMY,
AND PEOPLE
Heather Menzies
WORK, NEW TECHNOLOGY, AND CAPITALISM,
Peter Meiksins
FIGHTING NEOLIBERALISM IN CANADIAN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Elaine Bernard and Sid Schniad
PROPAGANDA AND CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC MIND
Noam Chomsky
THE PROPAGANDA MODEL REVISITED
Edward Herman
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIALIST
SELF-MANAGEMENT
Andy Pollack
About the Editors
ROBERT W. McCHESNEY teaches
journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy and Rich Media, Poor
Democracy (2000, pbk. edition).
ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD is the
author of numerous books including The Retreat from Class (1986,
winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize), The
Origin of Capitalism (1999) The Pristine Culture of
Capitalism (1991), and Democracy Against Capitalism (1995),
co-author with Neal Wood of A Trumpet of Sedition (1997), and
co-editor of In Defense of History (1997), and Rising from the Ashes?: Labor in the Age of
"Global" Capitalism (1999).
JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER is
professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of
The Vulnerable Planet (1999) and
Marx's Ecology (2000) and co-editor of In
Defense of History (1996).
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