Reconsidering value and labour in the digital age [electronic resource] /
Marx's Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age (Workshop)Corporate Author
Marx's Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age (Workshop)(2014 :Open University of Israel),issuing body.
Marx's Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age (Workshop)
Fuchs, Christian.editor.
Fisher, Eran.editor.
This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Series Preface; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Foundations; 1 Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age; 2 The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo; 3 The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour; Part II: Labour and Class; 4 A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour; 5 Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries; Part III: The Labour of Internet Users
6 The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era7 Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories; 8 Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of "Free Access": The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms; Part IV: Rent and the Commons; 9 Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective; 10 Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?; 11 The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Part V: Productivity in Reproduction12 Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour; 13 The Concept of Subsumption of Labour to Capital: Towards Life Subsumption in Bio-Cognitive Capitalism; 14 Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx's "Work of Combustion" and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour; Index
"This book documents the results of the workshop "Marx's Labour Theory of Value in the Digital Age" that took place from June 15-17, 2014, at the Open University of Israel."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.
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