ISBN:
9781138839298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (435 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
DDC:
302.30285
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media ideologies, and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short, understanding social media means coming to grips with the relationship between culture and the economy. In this thorough study, Christian Fuchs, one of the leading analysts of the Internet and social media, delves deeply i
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; PART I Theoretical Foundations; 2 Culture and Work; 3 Communication, Ideology, and Labour; PART II Social Media's Cultural Political Economy of Time; 4 Social Media and Labour Time; 5 Social Media and Productive Labour; PART III Social Media's Cultural Political Economy of Global Space; 6 Social Media's International Division of Digital Labour; 7 Baidu, Weibo, and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social Media in China; PART IV Alternatives
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Social Media and the Public Sphere9 Conclusion; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
