Critique, social media and the information society. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval.
• Other Names: Fuchs, Christian, 1976-; Sandoval, Marisol
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis -- part I. Critical Studies of the Information Society -- 2. Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social Media -- 3. Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society -- 4. Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Emerging Scholars -- 5. Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and Communication Society -- part II. Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies -- 6. Great Refusal or Long March: How to Think About the Internet -- 7. Producing Consumerism: Commodities, Ideologies, Practices -- 8. Social Media?: The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media -- 9. The Global Worker and the Digital Front -- 10. Alienation's Returns -- 11. Social Media and Political Participation: Discourse and Deflection -- 12. "The Architecture of Participation": For Citizens or Consumers? -- part III. Critical Studies of Communication Labour -- 13. Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States -- 14. Flight as Fight: Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism -- 15. Marx is Back, but Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (267 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 302.23/1 302.231; COMPUTERS / Web / Social Networking; Information society; Social media; Capitalism; Power (Social sciences); Cooperation; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Capitalism; Cooperation; Information society; Power (Social sciences); Social media; COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135019266; 1135019266; 9780203764077; 0203764072; 9781135019273; 1135019274
• Related ISBNs: 9780415841856; 0415841852
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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