| Description |
xii, 549 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN |
9781608467099 paperback |
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1608467090 paperback |
| Note |
Originally published: Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Marx is back: the importance of Marxist theory and research for critical communication studies today / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco -- Towards Marxian internet studies / Christian Fuchs -- Digital Marx: toward a political economy of distributed media / Andreas Wittel --The relevance of Marx's theory of primitive accumulation for media and communication research ? / Mattias Ekman -- The internet and "frictionless capitalism" / Jens Schröter -- Digital media and capital's logic of acceleration / Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen -- How less alienation creates more exploitation? Audience labour on social network sites / Eran Fisher -- The network's blindspot: exclusion, exploitation and Marx's process-relational ontology / Robert Prey -- 3C: commodifying communication in capitalism / Jernej A. Prodnik -- The construction of platform imperialism in the globalisation era / Dal Yong Jin -- Foxconned labour as the dark side of the information age: working conditions at Apple's contract manufacturers in China / Marisol Sandoval -- The pastoral power of technology: rethinking alienation in digital culture / Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L. Gidlund -- The problem of privacy in capitalism and alternative social media: the case of diaspora / Sebastian Sevignani -- "A workers' inquiry 2.0": an ethnographic method for the study of produsage in social media contexts / Brian B. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase -- Social media, mediation and the Arab revolutions / Miriyam Aouragh -- Marx in the cloud / Vincent Mosco. |
| Summary |
"Leading scholars of digital media and internet studies examine what Marx and his political economy have to offer their disciplines. More than 130 years after Marx's death, capitalism continues to be haunted by crises, each bringing renewed attention to his works. This volume presents 18 contributions that show how Marx's analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational-capitalism." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Series |
Studies in critical social sciences ; [80].
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| Library Class |
Politics Z695.M2
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| Subject |
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
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Communism and mass media.
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Communism and technology.
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Digital media -- Economic aspects.
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Marxian economics.
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| Other Author |
Fuchs, Christian, 1976- editor.
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Mosco, Vincent, editor.
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