Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism.
Fuchs, Christian.
Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (561 pages) - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.80 . - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series .
Intro -- Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Authors -- 1: Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today -- 2: Towards Marxian Internet Studies -- 3: Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media -- 4: The Relevance of Marx's Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research -- 5: The Internet and "Frictionless Capitalism" -- 6: Digital Media and Capital's Logic of Acceleration -- 7: How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites -- 8: The Network's Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx's Process-Relational Ontology -- 9: 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism -- 10: The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era -- 11: Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple's Contract Manufacturers in China -- 12: The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture -- 13: The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora -- 14: "A Workers' Inquiry 2.0": An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts -- 15: Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions -- 16: Marx in the Cloud -- Index.
This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies. It presents 16 contributions that show how Marx's analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.
9789004291393
Marx, Karl,-1818-1883.
Communism and mass media.
Communism and technology.
Digital media-Economic aspects.
Marxian economics.
Electronic books.
HX550.M35 .M375 2016
335.4
Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (561 pages) - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.80 . - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series .
Intro -- Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Authors -- 1: Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today -- 2: Towards Marxian Internet Studies -- 3: Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media -- 4: The Relevance of Marx's Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research -- 5: The Internet and "Frictionless Capitalism" -- 6: Digital Media and Capital's Logic of Acceleration -- 7: How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites -- 8: The Network's Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx's Process-Relational Ontology -- 9: 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism -- 10: The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era -- 11: Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple's Contract Manufacturers in China -- 12: The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture -- 13: The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora -- 14: "A Workers' Inquiry 2.0": An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts -- 15: Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions -- 16: Marx in the Cloud -- Index.
This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies. It presents 16 contributions that show how Marx's analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.
9789004291393
Marx, Karl,-1818-1883.
Communism and mass media.
Communism and technology.
Digital media-Economic aspects.
Marxian economics.
Electronic books.
HX550.M35 .M375 2016
335.4