Vincent Mosco
Professor of Sociology
Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society

My interest in computer communication dates from my 1982 book Pushbutton Fantasies which applied critical theory to videotex and other immediate predecessors of the internet. In my 1989 book The Pay-Per Society, I addressed the social consequences of using computer communication for commodification and social control. In 1996, I extended this analysis with The Political Economy of Communication, a broad rethinking of the political economy of media and information technology. My forthcoming book The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace connects myths about the internet to wider myths announcing the end of history, the end of geography and the end of politics. I am primarily interested in critical studies of the internet that bridge political economic and cultural analysis.

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Vincent Mosco - Department of Sociology