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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797507503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2016

ISBN

9789004291416 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (628 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Communism and mass media

Mass media - Economic aspects

Mass media - Social aspects

Marxian economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.