Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Published on 8. October 2015
Book
Hardback
564 pages
978-90-04-29138-6 (ISBN)
Description
More than 130 years after Karl Marx's death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitalism keeps being haunted by period crises. The most recent capitalist crisis has brought back attention to Marx's works.
This volume 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.
Marx is back! This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies.
This volume 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.
Marx is back! This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
4 s/w Tabellen, 12 s/w Zeichnungen
4 Tables, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
998 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-29138-6 (9789004291386)
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Persons
Christian Fuchs is professor at the University of Westminster and editor of the open access online journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. He is author of works such as Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media or Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Routledge, 2015).
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University where he was Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and head of the Department of Sociology. He is author of books such as To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) and The Political Economy of Communication (Sage, 2009).
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University where he was Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and head of the Department of Sociology. He is author of books such as To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) and The Political Economy of Communication (Sage, 2009).
Content
List of Tables and Figures
About the Authors
1. Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco
2. Towards Marxian Internet Studies
Christian Fuchs
3. Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media
Andreas Wittel
4. The Relevance of Marx's Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research
Mattias Ekman
5. The Internet and "Frictionless Capitalism"
Jens Schroeter
6. Digital Media and Capital's Logic of Acceleration
Vincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjosen
7. How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites
Eran Fisher
8. The Network's Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx's Process-Relational Ontology
Robert Prey
9. 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism
Jernej Prodnik
10. The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era
Dal Yong Jin
11. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple's Contract Manufacturers in China
Marisol Sandoval
12. The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture
Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund
13. The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora*
Sebastian Sevignani
14. 'A Workers' Inquiry 2.0': An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts
Brian Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase
15. Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions
Miriyam Aouragh
16. Marx in the Cloud
Vincent Mosco
Index
About the Authors
1. Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco
2. Towards Marxian Internet Studies
Christian Fuchs
3. Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media
Andreas Wittel
4. The Relevance of Marx's Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research
Mattias Ekman
5. The Internet and "Frictionless Capitalism"
Jens Schroeter
6. Digital Media and Capital's Logic of Acceleration
Vincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjosen
7. How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites
Eran Fisher
8. The Network's Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx's Process-Relational Ontology
Robert Prey
9. 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism
Jernej Prodnik
10. The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era
Dal Yong Jin
11. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple's Contract Manufacturers in China
Marisol Sandoval
12. The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture
Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund
13. The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora*
Sebastian Sevignani
14. 'A Workers' Inquiry 2.0': An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts
Brian Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase
15. Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions
Miriyam Aouragh
16. Marx in the Cloud
Vincent Mosco
Index