Dan Schiller

dschille@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu

Research Professor of Communications

Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Primary areas of interest: History and political economy of communication.








Professor Schiller is a communication historian whose interests center on telecommunications history, and on the role of cultural production in the socio-economic development of the market system. His books are Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (MIT, April, 1999); Theorizing Communication: A Historical Reckoning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Telematics and Government (Norwood: Ablex, 1982);and Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism (Philadelphia: Univ of Penn. Press, 1981).

Ph.D. in Communication, University of Pennsylvania (1978)