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How to Think about INFORMATION It's common wisdom that the U.S. economy has continued to thrive despite the loss of industry because of the booming information sector, with high-paying jobs for everything from wireless networks to video games. We are told we live in the Information Age, tn which communications networks and media and information services drive the larger economy. While the Information Age may have looked sunny in the beginning, as it has developed ... - " - - * ' f \ it looks increasingly ominous: its economy and benefits grow more and more centralized — and in the United States, it has become less and less subject to democratic oversight. Companies around the world have identified the value of information, and are now seeking to control its production, transmission, and consumption. In Howto Think about Information, Dan Schiller explores the ways information has been increasingly commodified, and how it both resembles and differs from other commodities. Through a linked series of theoretical, historical, and contemporary studies, Schiller reveals this commodification as both dynamic and expansionary, but also deeply conflicted and uncertain. ✓ How to Think about Information Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2020 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/howtothinkaboutiOOOOschi How to ✓ Think about Information DAN SCHILLER UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana and Chicago © 2007 by Dan Schiller All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 i @ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schiller, Dan, 1951- How to think about information / Dan Schiller, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. iSBN-13: 978-0-252-03132-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-252-03132-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Information—Economic aspects. 2. Telecommunication—Economic aspects. I. Title. HC79.155S35 2007 303-48'33—dc22 2006011275 For Zach and in Memory of Dr. Aaron Rosenbaum
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