Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eran Fisher, Christian Fuchs.
• Editors: Fisher, Eran; Fuchs, Christian
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age; Christian Fuchs and Eran Fisher; 2. The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo; Christian Fuchs; 3. The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture. Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour; Marisol Sandoval; PART I: LABOUR AND CLASS; 4. A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour; Arwid Lund; 5. Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet industries; Bingqing Xia; PART II: THE LABOUR OF INTERNET USERS; 6. The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era; Brice Nixon; 7. Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories; Eran Fisher; 8. Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of 'Free Access'. The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms; Yuqi Na; PART III: RENT AND THE COMMONS; 9. Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective; Thomas Allmer, Sebastian Sevignani, Jernej Prodnik; 10. Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?; Olivier Frayssé; 11. The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; Jakob Rigi; PART IV: PRODUCTIVITY IN REPRODUCTION 12. Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour; Kylie Jarrett; 13. The Concept of the Subsumption of Labour under Capital: Life Subsumption in Cognitive-Biocapitalism; Andrea Fumagalli; 14. Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx's 'Work of Combustion' and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour; Frederick H. Pitts; ;
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: Social Classes; Political Ideologies/Communism & Socialism; Economic Conditions; General; Social theory; Political science & theory; Sociology; Marxism & Communism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137478580; 1137478586
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