{"product_id":"marx-and-the-political-economy-of-the-media-9789004291409","title":"Marx and the Political Economy of the Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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.  Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice Vincent Mosco  3.  Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation Nicole S. Cohen  4.  Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl  5.  Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society George Pleios  6.  Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work  İrfan Erdogan   7.  Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies Christian Garland and Stephen Harper  8.  The Coolness of Capitalism Today Jim McGuigan  9.  Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method  Brice Nixon  10.  “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Michelle Rodino-Colocino   11.  Propaganda as Production Gerald Sussman  12.  Updating Marx’s Concept of the Alternatives Peter Ludes  13.  Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model Wilhelm Peekhaus  14.  Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media Padmaja Shaw  15.  The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina Pablo Castagno  16.  “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited William Henning James Hebblewhite   17.  Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela Lee Artz  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. Christian Fuchs  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210668138839,"sku":"9789004291409","price":221.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marx-and-the-political-economy-of-the-media-9789004291409","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}