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Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1

By Christian Fuchs

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
113894856X, 9781138948563
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4930612 bytes)
Pages
xiv+401\416
Topic
Economy
Time added
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Description

Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet, digital labour, social media, the media industries, and digital class struggles. Through a range of international, current-day examples, Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.

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