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Lecture Series
Media and Communication at
Muhlenberg College


DAN SCHILLER
Informationalized Capitalism: History and Prospect

Dan Schiller is Professor at the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Schiller is a leading historian of communication whose interests center on telecommunications history and on the role of cultural production in the socio-economic development of the market system. He is the author of several influential books, including Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System and Theorizing Communication: A Historical Reckoning, and Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cyber-Capitalism.
(Part of the Center for Ethics series: Ethics in the Information Age, Spring 2005; and Communication Honors Program Speaker, Spring 2002)