Global political economy, information technologies, and a people’s history of telecommunications: A dialogue with Dan Schiller

Abstract

In this academic conversation, Professor Dan Schiller, a critical political economy scholar and historian of information and communications, first shares his up-to-date observation and analysis of developments and changes in contemporary digital capitalism. Professor Schiller then turns to his newly published book Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The internet (Oxford University Press, 2023) and details his 40-year journey of research and writing on the history of these vital and recurrently contested infrastructures.