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Christian Fuchs - Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media - 9781138839311 - V9781138839311
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Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media

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Description for Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media Paperback. Num Pages: 434 pages, 60 black & white tables, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 622.

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 into the subject by applying the approach of cultural ... Read more

Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand culture and the economy in an era populated by social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google in the West and Weibo, Renren, and Baidu in the East. Updating the analysis of thinkers such as Raymond Williams, Karl Marx, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, and Dallas W. Smythe for the 21st century, Fuchs presents a version of Marxist cultural theory and cultural materialism that allows us to critically understand social media’s influence on culture and the economy.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138839311
SKU
V9781138839311
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Christian Fuchs
Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster. He is author of Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2014), Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Routledge, 2014), Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies (Routledge, 2011), and Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age (Routledge, 2008).

Reviews for Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
"This book is a tour de force. Drawing on a comprehensive re-reading of Marx and critical theory, Christian Fuchs demonstrates how everyday activity on social media is integral to the system of global exploitation that is restructuring contemporary capitalism. His powerful critique of the promotional rhetorics surrounding the Internet and his call for action deserves to be read and debated ... Read more

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