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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsList 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 Schröter 6. Digital Media and Capital’s Logic of Acceleration Vincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen 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
