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LIS 9867   Political Economy of Information

Course Description
This course gives a graduate-level introduction to the political economy perspective on library and information science. It examines the intersections between social relations of power and wealth and changing means of communication. The emphasis is on theory and broad historical overview. The course treats policy in the broadest sense, as a regime of power and control of the social processes of communication, and the production, organization, distribution, and use of information.

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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