Digital Depression : Information Technology and Economic Crisis

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Contradictory Moment -- Part I: Digital Capitalism's Ascent to Crisis -- 1. Network Connectivity and Labor Systems -- 2. Networked Production and Reconstructed Commodity Chains -- 3. Networked Financialization -- 4. Networked Militarization -- Part II: The Recomposition of Communications -- 5. The Historical Run-Up -- 6. Web Communications Commodity Chains -- 7. Services and Applications -- 8. The Sponsor System Resurgent -- 9. Growth amid Depression -- Part III: Geopolitics and Social Purpose -- 10. A Struggle for Growth -- 11. A "New Foreign Policy Imperative -- 12. Taking Care of Business: The Internet at the U.S. Commerce Department -- 13. Beyond a U.S.-centric Internet? -- 14. Accumulation and Repression -- 15. From Geopolitics to Social and Political Struggle -- Notes -- Index.