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SUMMARY:Digital Capitalism:  Stagnation and Contention? - Professor Dan Sc
 hiller\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nThe political economy has morphed throughout rec
 ent decades into a digitally-structured capitalism.  The lecture locates s
 ome primary features of this historical process in patterns of corporate c
 apital investment in ICTs.  It goes on to sketch the development of the po
 litics of digitization\, between the 1970s and today.  A foremost conclusi
 on is that\, in contrast to the unabashed triumphalism that greeted the ri
 se of the Internet as a pole of growth during the 1990s\, today we are liv
 ing amid both persistent economic stagnation and escalating political cont
 ention over the structure and control of the world's information infrastru
 cture.\n\n*About the speaker*\n\nDan Schiller\, Professor Emeritus of Libr
 ary & Information Science and of Communication at the University of Illino
 is at Urbana-Champaign\, is an historian of information and communications
  in the context of the five-hundred year development of the capitalist pol
 itical economy. He has held Chairs at UCSD\, UCLA and Temple Universities 
 and is the author of several books including _Digital Capitalism: networki
 ng the global market system_ (MIT Press\, 1999) and\, most recently\, _Dig
 ital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis_ (University o
 f Illinois Press\, 2014). He writes about the Internet and other communica
 tions systems for _Le Monde Diplomatique_. Presently\, he is conducting ar
 chival research for a longstanding project on the history of US telecommun
 ications and is visiting the Technology and Democracy project in CRASSH.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Cripps Court\, Magdalene\, 1-3 Chesterton Road\,
  Cambridge
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