{"product_id":"how-to-think-about-information-9780252031328","title":"How to Think about Information","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is common wisdom that the U.S. economy has adapted to losses in its manufacturing base 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  in 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 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. Corporations around the world have identified the value of information and are now seeking to control its production  transmission  and consumption. In How to Think about Information  Dan Schiller explores the ways information has been increasingly commodified as a result 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. He examines the transformative political and economic changes occurring throughout the informational realm and analyzes key dimensions of the process  including the buildup of new technological platforms  the growth of a transnationalizing culture industry  and the role played by China as it reinserts itself into an informationalized capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923811794997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252031326","price":100.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252031328.jpg?v=1794115791","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/how-to-think-about-information-9780252031328","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}