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About the Authors

1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco

2. Towards Marxian Internet Studies
Christian Fuchs

3. Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media
Andreas Wittel

4. The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research
Mattias Ekman

5. The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism”
Jens Schröter

6. Digital Media and Capital’s Logic of Acceleration
Vincent R. Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen

7. How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites
Eran Fisher

8. The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology
Robert Prey

9. 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism
Jernej Prodnik

10. The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era
Dal Yong Jin

11. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China
Marisol Sandoval

12. The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture
Katarina 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 Contexts
Brian Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase

15. Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions
Miriyam Aouragh

16. Marx in the Cloud
Vincent Mosco

Index

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Peer reviewed nature of the book series provides an inbuilt credibility to other academics working within the field.

Modern Capitalism began the 21st Century seemingly victorious as the dominant social and economic organizing principle in the world. Rampant re- and de-regulation accompanied a wholesale attack on social, economic and political gains of the prior century under the guise of increasing competitiveness and the need to respond to the forces of globalization. The end of the cold war, the decline of the former Soviet Union, and the increasing foothold of capitalism in China all point to an unchallenged reorientation of the global political economy to reflect this ascendence of capitalist social relations.

The peer-reviewed Studies in Critical Social Science book series, through the publication of original manuscripts and edited volumes, offers insights into the current reality by exploring the content and consequence of power relationships under capitalism, by considering the spaces of opposition and resistance to these changes that have been defining our new age.