Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages.
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current
The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427
The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back!
With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco
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Table of Contents
127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today.
Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation
141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies
171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites
184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies
203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited
214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration
230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society
253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology
274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory
302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism”
313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media
Marx and Ideology Critique
334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina
349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work
392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies
413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies
425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today
439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture
457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique
474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange
Marx and Media Use
488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts
509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture
Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles
518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions
537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution
555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives
570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice
577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate
600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora*
618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate
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