Capitalism and the information age : the political economy of the global communication revolution / edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The political economy of global communication / Robert W. McChesney -- Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism? / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- Virtual capitalism / Michael Dawson and John Bellamy Foster -- Global village or cultural pillage? : the unequal inheritance of the communications revolution / Peter Golding -- Challenging capitalism in cyberspace: the information highway, the postindustrial economy, and people / Heather Menzies -- The U.S. rules, OK? telecommunications since the 1940s / Jill Hills -- The privatization of telecommunications / Nicholas Baran -- Selling our children: channel one and the politics of education / Michael W. Apple -- Work, new technology, and capitalism / Peter Meiksins -- Fighting neoliberalism in Canadian telecommunications / Elaine Bernard and Sid Shniad -- Propaganda and control of the public mind / Noam Chomsky -- The propaganda model revisited / Edward Herman -- Democracy and the new technologies / Ken Hirschkop -- Information technology and socialist self-management / Andy Pollack.