Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367418779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Christian Fuchs

Opis

This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication and cultural studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Dialectic 3. Materialism: The Base/Superstructure-Problem 4. Commodities, Capital, Capitalism 5. Labour and Surplus-Value 6. The Working Class 7. Alienation 8. Means of Communication and the General Intellect 9. Ideology 10. Socialism and Communism 11. Class Struggles

O autorze

Christian Fuchs is a professor of media and communication studies and a critical theorist of communication and society. He is co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (http://www.triple-c.at) and author of many books, including Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory, Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism, Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter, Digital Labour and Karl Marx, and Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age.