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

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 79
• TeilnehmendeR: Fuchs, Christian, 1976-; Mosco, Vincent,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 79.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (628 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today /; Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice /; Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation /; Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies /; Communication and Symbolic Capitalism – Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society /; Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work /; Did Somebook-body Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies /; The Coolness of Capitalism Today /; Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method /; “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique /; Propaganda as Production /; Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives /; Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model /; Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media /; The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina /; “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited /; Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela /; Dallas Smythe Today – The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9789004291416 (ebook)
• ISSN: 1573-4234
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Christian Fuchs, Vincent Mosco.

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.