Dan Schiller To Speak At Final Center For Ethics Event At Muhlenberg College
Dan Schiller, a professor at the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign will present the final lecture in the series Ethics in the Information Age.Wednesday, April 13, 2005 09:57 AM
Dan Schiller, a professor at the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign will present the final lecture in the series Ethics in the Information Age, entitled “Informationalized Capitalism: History and Prospect” at Muhlenberg College on Monday April 25, 2005. This event is free and open to the public.
Schiller, a leading historian of communication, is the author of several influential books, including Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System, Theorizing Communication: A Historical Reckoning and Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cyber-Capitalism. His interests center on telecommunications history and on the role of cultural production in the socio-economic development of the market system.
Schiller’s presentation will focus on the how and why of information as it emerged as a commodity. His talk will include societal interests and changes in network infrastructures, legal and policy strictures and global political-economic relations that commodification has evoked. Schiller looks to answer the question: in the aftermath of the high-tech/Internet bubble, has information commodification become a dead letter?
Ethics in the Information Age is a semester-long series sponsored by the College’s Center for Ethics. For more information on the Center, please visit www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
