Marx and the Political Economy of the Media

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 Mosco2. Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media PracticeVincent Mosco3. Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and ExploitationNicole S. Cohen4. Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent TechnologiesRichard Hall and Bernd Stahl5. Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information SocietyGeorge Pleios6. Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work İrfan Erdogan 7. Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication StudiesChristian Garland and Stephen Harper8. The Coolness of Capitalism TodayJim McGuigan9. Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method Brice Nixon10. “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and IdeologyMichelle Rodino-Colocino 11. Propaganda as ProductionGerald Sussman12. Updating Marx’s Concept of the AlternativesPeter Ludes13. Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing ModelWilhelm Peekhaus14. Marx, Free Speech and the Indian MediaPadmaja Shaw15. The Ideology of Media Policy in ArgentinaPablo Castagno16. “Means of Communication as Means of Production” RevisitedWilliam Henning James Hebblewhite 17. Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in VenezuelaLee Artz18. Dallas Smythe Today – The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value.Christian FuchsIndex