Marx and the political economy of the media / edited by Christian Fuchs, Vincent Mosco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuchs, Christian, 1976- editor.

Mosco, Vincent, editor.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences

Studies in critical social sciences book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Communism and mass media.

Mass media--Economic aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Marxian economics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 614 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2017.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today / Christian Fuchs Fuchs, Christian, Vincent Mosco Mosco, Vincent 1

2 Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice / Vincent Mosco Mosco, Vincent 23

3 Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation / Nicole S. Cohen Cohen, Nicole S. 36

4 Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies / Richard Hall Hall, Richard, Bernd Stahl Stahl, Bernd 65

5 Communication and Symbolic Capitalism - Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society / George Pleios Pleios, George 98

6 Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx's Work / Irfan Erdogan Erdogan, Irfan 138

7 Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies / Christian Garland Garland, Christian, Stephen Harper Harper, Stephen 219

8 The Coolness of Capitalism Today / Jim McGuigan McGuigan, Jim 238

9 Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method / Brice Nixon Nixon, Brice 260

10 "Feminism" as Ideology: Sarah Palin's Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique / Michelle Rodino-Colocino Rodino-Colocino, Michelle 284

11 Propaganda as Production / Gerald Sussman Sussman, Gerald 315

12 Updating Marx's Concept of Alternatives / Peter Ludes Ludes, Peter 338

13 Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model / Wilhelm Peekhaus Peekhaus, Wilhelm 363

14 Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media / Padmaja Shaw Shaw, Padmaja 407

15 The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina / Pablo Castagno Castagno, Pablo 433

16 "Means of Communication as Means of Production" Revisited / William Henning Henning, William, James Hebblewhite Hebblewhite, James 470

17 Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela / Lee Artz Artz, Lee 490

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 Fuchs, Christian 522.

Notes:

"First published in 2015 by Brill Academic Publishers, The Netherlands"--title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1608467082

9781608467082

OCLC:

1026460076