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Marx and the Political Economy of the Media
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Edited by:
Christian Fuchs
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
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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.
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.
Author / Editor information
Christian Fuchs is professor at the University of Westminster and editor of the open access online journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. He is author of works such as Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media or Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Routledge, 2015).
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University where he was Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and head of the Department of Sociology. He is author of books such as To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) and The Political Economy of Communication (Sage, 2009).
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University where he was Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and head of the Department of Sociology. He is author of books such as To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) and The Political Economy of Communication (Sage, 2009).
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September 29, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9789004291416
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Main content:
614
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11
Tables:
14
eBook ISBN:
9789004291416
Keywords for this book
Karl Marx; capitalism; communication; communications; technology; Internet; digital; political economy; culture; cultural studies; media studies; communication studies
Audience(s) for this book
All students, scholars, activists, citizens interested in Marx, media, culture and communication studies.
