Copies:
Available:*
Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Call Number | Shelf Location | Status | Item Holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Searching... | Book | BILKUTUP0225200 | HE7775 .S87 1997 | Central Campus Library | Searching... | Searching... |
On Order
Summary
Summary
This book provides a detailed, critical analysis for understanding the political dimensions of 21st century communication/information technologies, mass media and transnational networks.
Gerald Sussman contextualizes the expanding use of these technologies and media in the social histories of their development, in order to provide an integrated functional and political economic framework for viewing the many controversies surrounding communications, media and society - from the diminishing of citizenship and work experiences to the growing use of commerical and political surveillance. In addition, he examines the impacts of global communication and information structures on the developing countries and at alternatives to the hegemonic tendencies within the United States and the world economy.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 The Meaning and Politics of the 'Communication Revolution' |
| Ideology and Discourses of the "Information Society" |
| A Political Economy of Communications |
| Part 2 The Social Historical Process |
| Historical Perspectives on Communications |
| Mass Consumption, Mass Communications and Politics |
| Part 3 Political Issues in the 'Information Society' |
| Modern Power Structures and the Means to Communicate |
| Privatizing the Ether |
| Regulation, Deregulation and Information Apartheid |
| Part 4 The Global Dimensions of the 'Information Society' |
| The Third World Meets the 'Third Wave' |
| Part 5 Conclusions |
| Communication, Technology and Politics |