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 ; Volume 79.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 79

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and mass media.

Mass media--Economic aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Marxian economics.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (628 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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. Marx is back! This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco

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

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

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

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

Communication and Symbolic Capitalism – Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society / George Pleios

Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work / İrfan Erdogan

Did Somebook-body Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies / Christian Garland and Stephen Harper

The Coolness of Capitalism Today / Jim McGuigan

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

“Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique / Michelle Rodino-Colocino

Propaganda as Production / Gerald Sussman

Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives / Peter Ludes

Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model / Wilhelm Peekhaus

Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media / Padmaja Shaw

The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina / Pablo Castagno

“Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited / William Henning James Hebblewhite

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

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 / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004291416 (ebook)

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004291416 DOI