Digital Capitalism: A Status Report on the Corporate Commonwealth of Information

A Companion to Media Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 137-156

  Schiller, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital capitalism; Global culture industry; Information; Monopolies; New order

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548215502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999066.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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