Marx and the political economy of the media
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Marx and the political economy of the media
（Studies in critical social sciences, v. 79）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies. It 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.
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1. Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco
2. Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice
Vincent Mosco
3. Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
Nicole S. Cohen
4. Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies
Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl
5. Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society
George Pleios
6. Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx's Work
Irfan Erdogan
7. Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies
Christian Garland and Stephen Harper
8. The Coolness of Capitalism Today
Jim McGuigan
9. Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method
Brice Nixon
10. "Feminism" as Ideology: Sarah Palin's Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology
Michelle Rodino-Colocino
11. Propaganda as Production
Gerald Sussman
12. Updating Marx's Concept of the Alternatives
Peter Ludes
13. Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model
Wilhelm Peekhaus
14. Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media
Padmaja Shaw
15. The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina
Pablo Castagno
16. "Means of Communication as Means of Production" Revisited
William Henning James Hebblewhite
17. Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela
Lee Artz
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
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