Dan Schiller is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System and other books.

"How to Think About Information is a critically important book. . . . Schiller provides fundamentally important insights into the infrastructural and superstructural demands of commodification."--Global Media and Communication "Dan Schiller's oeuvre is clear and one that scholars must acknowledge if they deem themselves fit to reflect on the character of the information age."--European Journal of Comunication "Dan Schiller is today probably the most lucid and critical scholar writing on the structure and history of communication and information systems--not just in the U.S., by the way--and this book demonstrates that in spades. He unites his usual clarity of vision of the present with his always-insightful examination and interpretation of communication history. This work will be another significant advancement of our knowledge, informing not just academic curiosity but also how we ought to think and rethink public policy that is shaping information and media today."--Richard Maxwell, professor of media studies, Queens College, City University of New York

• Acknowledgments Preface Part I: The Roots of Informationalized Capitalism 1. How to Think about Information 2. Culture, Information, and Commodification 3. Accelerated Commodification Part II: Vectors of Commodification 4. Business Users and U.S. Telecommunications-SystemA Development 5. The Crisis in Telecommunications 6. The Culture Industry: ConvergenceB and Transnationalization 7. Parasites of the Quotidian 8. Mobilized Part III: Poles of Market Growth, or a Deepening Crisis? 9. Open Questions about China, Information, and the World Economy Notes Index

Dan Schiller is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System and other books.

"How to Think About Information is a critically important book. . . . Schiller provides fundamentally important insights into the infrastructural and superstructural demands of commodification."--Global Media and Communication "Dan Schiller's oeuvre is clear and one that scholars must acknowledge if they deem themselves fit to reflect on the character of the information age."--European Journal of Comunication "Dan Schiller is today probably the most lucid and critical scholar writing on the structure and history of communication and information systems--not just in the U.S., by the way--and this book demonstrates that in spades. He unites his usual clarity of vision of the present with his always-insightful examination and interpretation of communication history. This work will be another significant advancement of our knowledge, informing not just academic curiosity but also how we ought to think and rethink public policy that is shaping information and media today."--Richard Maxwell, professor of media studies, Queens College, City University of New York

• Acknowledgments Preface Part I: The Roots of Informationalized Capitalism 1. How to Think about Information 2. Culture, Information, and Commodification 3. Accelerated Commodification Part II: Vectors of Commodification 4. Business Users and U.S. Telecommunications-SystemA Development 5. The Crisis in Telecommunications 6. The Culture Industry: ConvergenceB and Transnationalization 7. Parasites of the Quotidian 8. Mobilized Part III: Poles of Market Growth, or a Deepening Crisis? 9. Open Questions about China, Information, and the World Economy Notes Index

Dan Schiller is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System and other books.

"How to Think About Information is a critically important book. . . . Schiller provides fundamentally important insights into the infrastructural and superstructural demands of commodification."--Global Media and Communication "Dan Schiller's oeuvre is clear and one that scholars must acknowledge if they deem themselves fit to reflect on the character of the information age."--European Journal of Comunication "Dan Schiller is today probably the most lucid and critical scholar writing on the structure and history of communication and information systems--not just in the U.S., by the way--and this book demonstrates that in spades. He unites his usual clarity of vision of the present with his always-insightful examination and interpretation of communication history. This work will be another significant advancement of our knowledge, informing not just academic curiosity but also how we ought to think and rethink public policy that is shaping information and media today."--Richard Maxwell, professor of media studies, Queens College, City University of New York

• Acknowledgments Preface Part I: The Roots of Informationalized Capitalism 1. How to Think about Information 2. Culture, Information, and Commodification 3. Accelerated Commodification Part II: Vectors of Commodification 4. Business Users and U.S. Telecommunications-SystemA Development 5. The Crisis in Telecommunications 6. The Culture Industry: ConvergenceB and Transnationalization 7. Parasites of the Quotidian 8. Mobilized Part III: Poles of Market Growth, or a Deepening Crisis? 9. Open Questions about China, Information, and the World Economy Notes Index