应北京大学“大学堂”讲学计划和北京大学国家战略传播研究院的邀请，美国伊利诺伊大学香槟分校荣休教授丹·席勒（Daniel Toby Schiller）于2016年10月22日-11月2日到访北京大学并发表了4场演讲。系列演讲中，席勒教授从20世纪六七十年代数字资本资本主义的兴起开篇，对其历史起源、权力结构和当前的信息地缘政治格局进行了深刻分析。此后，他回溯当前信息领域的全球霸主美国信息传播业的历史，对促成美国数字资本主义发展的国内外因素进行了讨论，并着重诠释了兼具灵活性和强制性的政府干预在美国电信业数字化中的关键作用。最后，席勒教授利用文献档案分析了全球通信史中的权力争夺和复杂博弈。席勒教授强调，数字资本主义虽然实现了资本主义矛盾的现代化，但却无法超越资本主义内在的危机倾向。

At the invitation of Peking University Global Fellowship Program and Institute of National Strategic Communication, Professor Daniel Toby Schiller from University of Illinois at Urbana - Champagne visited Peking University from Oct. 22th to Nov. 2nd, 2016 and delivered four lectures. In his lecture series, Prof. Schiller began with the rise of digital capitalism since the 1960s and 1970s, and analyzed its historical origin, power structure and current geopolitical map. Tracing back to the telecom history, Prof. Schiller discussed the factors both home and abroad that contributed to the US’ hegemony, especially the key role of the ?exible and coercive government intervention. Finally, Prof. Schiller used the literature to analyze the international competition in the history of global communication. According to Schiller, while digital capitalism has modernized the contradictions of capitalism, it cannot go beyond the inherent crisis of capitalism.