Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism

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).

• List of Tables and FiguresAbout the Authors1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies TodayChristian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco 2. Towards Marxian Internet StudiesChristian Fuchs 3. Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed MediaAndreas Wittel 4. The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication ResearchMattias Ekman 5. The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism”Jens Schröter 6. Digital Media and Capital’s Logic of AccelerationVincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen 7. How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network SitesEran Fisher 8. The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational OntologyRobert Prey9. 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism Jernej Prodnik 10. The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation EraDal Yong Jin 11. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in ChinaMarisol Sandoval 12. The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital CultureKatarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund 13. The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora*Sebastian Sevignani 14. ‘A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0’: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media ContextsBrian Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase 15. Social Media, Mediation and the Arab RevolutionsMiriyam Aouragh 16. Marx in the CloudVincent Mosco Index