ISBN:
9780415841856
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Critique, Social Media and the Information Society
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 th
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis; PARTI Critical Studies of the Information Society; 2 Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social Media; 3 Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society; 4 Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Emerging Scholars; 5 Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and Communication Society
Description / Table of Contents:
PART II Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies6 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?; PART III Critical Studies of Communication Labour
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States14 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; Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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