Dan Schiller

Biographic Data

ID280374
NAMEDan Schiller
GIVEN NAMESDan
FAMILY NAMESchiller
SIGNATURESCHILLER D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ORCID0000-0002-3930-7363
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS77
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Exploring the Intersection of Communication and Labor: A Dialogue with Dan Schiller

    Open AccessDan Schiller, Yuezhi Zhao et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transcultural…2025

    This paper came out of a research seminar at Tsinghua University. On November 16, 2023, Yuezhi Zhao, a communication scholar who studies the political economy of communication from a transcultural context, invited Dan Schiller, a critical political economy scholar and historian of information and communications to her doctoral course entitled A Global History of Journalism and Communication Theory at Tsinghua University, for an open dialogue. In …

  • Face in the mirror, what do you see? Catoptric autoexperimentation and the physiognomic gaze

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEChinese Semiotic Studies2023

    To critically explicate the visual epistemology for catoptric autoexperimentation in the contemporary science of facial behavior, by way of its historical progenitors, I draw upon the pragmatic semiotics of the catoptric phenomenon. This problematization of catoptrics is fundamentally about two different but related concepts: the semiotic threshold and the iconicity debate. Based on primary sources both Western and Eastern, I trace a transcultura…

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

    Open AccessDan Schiller, Min TangARTICLECommunication and the Public2023References: 1

    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) a…

  • The face and the faceness: Iconicity in the early faciasemiotics of Paul Ekman, 1957–1978

    Open AccessDan Schiller, Devon SchillerARTICLESign Systems Studies2021Cited by: 4References: 1

    Paul Ekman is an American psychologist who pioneered the study of facial behaviour. Bringing together disciplinary history, life study, and history of science, this paper focuses on Ekman’s early research during the twenty-year period between 1957 and 1978. I explicate the historical development of Ekman’s semiotic model of facial behaviour, tracing the thread of iconicity through his life and works: from the iconic coding of rapid signs; through…

  • For Now We See through an AI Darkly; but Then Face-to-Face: A Brief Survey of Emotion Recognition in Biometric Art

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEPrzegląd Kulturoznawczy2020

    Our knowledge about the facial expression of emotion may well be entering an age of scientific revolution. Conceptual models for facial behavior and emotion phenomena appear to be undergoing a paradigm shift brought on at least in part by advances made in facial recognition technology and automated facial expression analysis. And the use of technological labor by corporate, government, and institutional agents for extracting data capital from bot…

  • Documenting Media Art: An Archive and Bridging Thesaurus for MediaArtHistories

    Oliver Grau, Sebastian Haller et al.ARTICLELeonardo2019

    While Media Art has evolved into a critical field at the intersection of art, science and technology, a significant loss threatens this art form due to rapid technological obsolescence and static documentation strategies. Addressing these challenges, the Interactive Archive and Meta-Thesaurus for Media Art Research was developed to advance an Archive of Digital Art. Through an innovative strategy of “collaborative archiving,” social Web 2.0 featu…

  • ‘Let them move the mail with transistors instead of brains’: Labour convergence in posts and telecommunications, 1972–3

    Open AccessCaroline Nappo Caroline Nappo, Caroline Nappo et al.ARTICLEWork Organisation Labour &…2010

    The United States employs more postal workers than any other country, including China. The American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers represent the majority of these workers. Since the APWU's formation in 1970, both unions have declined to merge with one another or any other union; however, in the early 1970s, the APWU and the NALC participated in merger talks with the Communications Workers of America. This art…

  • Actually Existing Information Society

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLETelevision & New Media2008

  • China in the United States90

    Dan SchillerARTICLECommunication and Critical/Cultural…2008Cited by: 1

  • Media Policy and Globalization: History, Culture, Politics , by Paula Chakravarty and Katharine Sarikakis

    Dan SchillerARTICLEPolitical Communication2008

    Media Policy and Globalization: History, Culture, Politics, by Paula Chakravarty and Katharine Sarikakis." , 25(1), pp. 99–100

  • The Militarization of U.S. Communications

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLECommunication Culture and Critique2008Cited by: 5References: 1

    Journal Article The Militarization of U.S. Communications Get access Dan Schiller Dan Schiller 1Department of Speech Communication and Graduate School of Library & Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 126–138, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2007.00013.x…

  • Poles of market growth: Open questions about China, information and the world economy

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEGlobal Media and Communication2005Cited by: 6References: 2

    Control over communications is a crucial concomitant of political-economic power. China’s emergence as an important force within the global capitalist system is thus giving rise to a substantially greater presence in the system of international communications. A series of initiatives, briefly inventoried here, aims to win a place for Chinese interests across the entire spectrum of media and telecommunications systems, spanning hardware, software …

  • Dennis Dworkin — Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies; Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster, editors — In Defense of History: Marxism …

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…1999

    Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method

  • Theorizing Communication: A History

    John J Pauly, Dan SchillerARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Theorizing Communication: A History. By Dan Schiller. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xx, 275 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-510199-5) Get access John J. Pauly John J. Pauly Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 285–286, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568546 Published: 01 June 1998

  • Information and culture as commodity: From culture to information and back again: Commoditization as a route to knowledge

    Linda Steiner, Dan SchillerARTICLECritical Studies in Mass…1994

  • Back to the Future: Prospects for Study of Communication as a Social Force

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEJournal of Communication1993

  • Capitalism, Information, and Uneven Development

    Dan SchillerARTICLEAnnals of the International…1993References: 1

  • Informational Bypass: Research Library Access to U.S. Telecommunications Periodicals

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEJournal of Communication1989

    Journal Article Informational Bypass: Research Library Access to U.S. Telecommunications Periodicals Get access Dan Schiller Dan Schiller 1Dan Schiller is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 39, Issue 3, September 1989, Pages 104–109, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.14…

  • The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics

    Dan Schiller, Peter Temin et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics. By Peter Temin. With Louis Galambos. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xviii + 378 pp. $27.95.) Get access Dan Schiller Dan Schiller University of Califorr, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 1037–1039, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901734 Publish…

  • Critical response: Evolutionary confusion

    Dan SchillerARTICLECritical Studies in Mass…1987

  • The emerging global grid: Planning for what

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEMedia Culture & Society1985Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism

    Hazel Dicken‐Garcia, Hazel Dicken-Garcia et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1983

  • Crime News and the Public. Doris A. Graber

    Dan SchillerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1983

  • Business Users and the Telecommunications Network

    Open AccessDan SchillerARTICLEJournal of Communication1982

    Journal Article Business Users and the Telecommunications Network Get access Dan Schiller Dan Schiller 1Dan Schiller is Assistant Professor of Communications in the Department of Radio-TV-Film, Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 1982, Pages 84–96, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1982.tb02521.x Published: 07 February 2006

  • Horace Greeley

    Dan Schiller, Erik S LundeARTICLEJournal of American History1982

    Journal Article Horace Greeley. By Erik S. Lunde. (Boston: Twayne, 1981. 138 pp. Illustration, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $9.95.) Get access Dan Schiller Dan Schiller Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 2, September 1982, Page 454, https://doi.org/10.2307/1893866 Published: 01 September 1982