Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis

by Dan Schiller

Book Overview

For decades society venerated advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift. The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook such ideas. Originating in the United States, the driver of digital systems and services, the prolonged economic slump precipitated a perplexing historical outcome: a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse. Dan Schiller analyzes the crisis tendencies of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080327
• ISBN13: 9780252080326
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"