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ISBN 10: 1135019266
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Author: Christian Fuchs 

In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. On the other hand, the question arises as to what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, crisis, rebellions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, how political struggles are connected to social media, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved.

Critique Social Media and the Information Society 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis
1.1 Information Society?
1.2 Social Media?
1.3 Critique
1.4 Capitalist Crisis
1.4.1 Crises and the Antagonisms of Capitalism
1.4.2 Marxist Crisis Explanation Number 1: The Intersubjective Class Antagonism
1.4.3 Marxist Crisis Explanation Number 2: The Objective Law of the Rate of Profit to Fall
1.4.4 Marxist Crisis Explanation Number 3: A Combination of Intersubjective and Objective Factors
1.4.4.1 Explanation Number 3, Version 1: the Crisis as Result of the Combination of the Class Antagonism and the Antagonism between Fictitious and Real Values of Capital
1.4.4.2 Explanation Number 3, Version 2: the Crisis as Result of the Combination of the Class Antagonism and the Overaccumulation of Capital
1.4.5 An Explanation of the Capitalist Crisis
1.4.6 The Crisis and the Media
1.5 The Chapters in This Book

• Section I: Critical Studies of the Information Society
• Section II: Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies
• Section III: Critical Studies of Communication Labour
  1.6 Karl Marx and the Chapters in This Book
  1.7 Conclusion
  Notes
  References

II Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies
6 Great Refusal or Long March How to Think About the Internet
7 Producing Consumerism Commodities, Ideologies, Practices
8 Social Media? The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media
9 The Global Worker and the Digital Front
10 Alienation’s Returns
11 Social Media and Political Participation Discourse and Deflection
12 “The Architecture of Participation” For Citizens or Consumers?

III Critical Studies of Communication Labour
13 Precarious Times, Precarious Work A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States
14 Flight as Fight Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism
15 Marx is Back, but Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite? On the Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today

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