Fuchs, Christian. <br/><br/>
Marx and the Political Economy of the Media. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (628 pages) 
 - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ;  v.79 .
 - Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004291416 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Marx, Karl,-1818-1883.<br/>Communism and mass media.<br/>Mass media-Economic aspects.<br/>Mass media-Social aspects.<br/>Marxian economics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HX550.M35 .M379 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23