Reconsidering value and labour in the digital age. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eran Fisher, Christian Fuchs.
• Editors: Fisher, Eran; Fuchs, Christian, 1976-
• Other Names: Marx's Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age (Workshop)
• Contents: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Series Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: Foundations -- 1 Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age -- 2 The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo -- 3 The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour -- Part II: Labour and Class -- 4 A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour -- 5 Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries. 11 The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- Part V: Productivity in Reproduction -- 12 Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour -- 13 The Concept of Subsumption of Labour to Capital: Towards Life Subsumption in Bio-Cognitive Capitalism -- 14 Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx's "Work of Combustion" and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour -- Index. Part III: The Labour of Internet Users -- 6 The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era -- 7 Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories -- 8 Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of "Free Access": The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms -- Part IV: Rent and the Commons -- 9 Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective -- 10 Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 335.412; Labor; Value; Telecommuting; Information technology -- Economic aspects; Social media -- Economic aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism; Information technology -- Economic aspects; Labor; Social media -- Economic aspects; Telecommuting; Value; Social Sciences; Sociology of Work; Political Theory; Sociology of Culture; Social Theory; Sociology, general; Regional and Cultural Studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137478573; 1137478578; 9781349570775
• Related ISBNs: 134957077X; 9781349570775; 113747856X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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