Christian Fuchs

Digital Labour and Karl Marx

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Produktbeschreibung

How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from Chinese workers at Foxconn Shenzhen to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415716161
• ISBN-10: 0415716160
• Artikelnr.: 42023939

Autorenporträt

Christian Fuchs is professor of social media at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of more than 180 academic publications in the fields of Internet studies, social media studies, critical social theory and information society studies. He is the chair of the European Sociological Association's Research Network 18 and co-founder of the ICTs and Society Network. Among his publications are the books, Internet and Society, Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies , and the collected volumes, Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media and Critique, Social Media, and the Information Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory 3. Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx 4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today 5. Capitalism or Information Society 6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT-Related Mineral Extraction 7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour 8. The Division of Labour of the New Imperialism: Work in the Indian Software Industry 9. The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and its Context 10. Tayloristic, Housewifised Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work 11. Theorising Digital Labour on Social Media 12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work--The Occupy Movement as a New Working Class Movement? Social Media as Working Class Social Media? Glossary

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1. Introduction   2. An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory  3. Contemporary
Cultural Studies and Karl Marx  4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today 
5. Capitalism or Information Society  6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in
ICT-Related Mineral Extraction  7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive
Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour  8. The Division of
Labour of the New Imperialism: Work in the Indian Software Industry  9. The
Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour
Aristocracy and its Context  10. Tayloristic, Housewifised Service Labour:
The Example of Call Centre Work  11. Theorising Digital Labour on Social
Media  12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work--The Occupy
Movement as a New Working Class Movement? Social Media as Working Class
Social Media? Glossary

Rezensionen

"The field of cultural studies offers a natural window for looking more closely at the role of labor in digital media. Although some pioneers in cultural studies began important work with respect to labor, Fuchs carefully describes how cultural studies has increasingly distanced itself from questions of class. Fuchs does a remarkable job of using Marxist theory to reinvigorate the world of cultural studies. In short, the book is both encyclopedic and easily accessible. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - M Perelman, California State University, Chico, in CHOICE

"Fuchs has written a rigorous, passionate, and deeply humane book... He successfully manages to demonstrate the need to revisit Marx's work in relation to digital labour... The book is demanding, yet suitable for both dedicated Marxist scholars and readers who are less well read in Marx's work. Fuchs is thorough in detailing his reading of Marx, which can be welcome for newcomers to the field, while the argument itself and the application of Marx's work will sustain the attention of those who are better versed in the quoted texts."

- Vladimir Rizov, University of York, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books