Marx and the Political Economy of the Media.

Intro -- Marx and the Political Economy of the Media -- 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: Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice -- 3: Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation -- 4: Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies -- 5: Communication and Symbolic Capitalism - Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society -- 6: Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx's Work -- 7: Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies -- 8: The Coolness of Capitalism Today -- 9: Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method -- 10: "Feminism" as Ideology: Sarah Palin's Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique -- 11: Propaganda as Production -- 12: Updating Marx's Concept of Alternatives -- 13: Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model -- 14: Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media -- 15: The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina -- 16: "Means of Communication as Means of Production" Revisited -- 17: Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela -- 18: Dallas Smythe Today - The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value -- Index.

This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies. It presents 18 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 media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational capitalism.

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