Political Economy of Communication with Dr. Daniel Joseph
Channel: Communist Party of Canada
Date: 2020-08-13

An Introduction to the Political Economy of Communication. Dr. Daniel Joseph, PhD., Senior Lecturer in Digital Sociology, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University. 

Presentation for the Rosa Luxemburg Club of the Communist Party of Canada, August 9 2020

Links and Resources:

Barbrook, R., & Cameron, A. (1996). The Californian Ideology. http://www.comune.torino.it/gioart/big/bigguest/riflessioni/californian_engl.pdf

Crawford, K., & Joler, V. (2018). Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. https://anatomyof.ai/

Greene, D., & Joseph, D. (2015). The Digital Spatial Fix. Triple C, 13(2), 223-247.  https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/659

Serra & Schoolman (1973), Television Delivers People  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZYwaQlJsg

Joseph, D. (2018) The Time Canada Wanted Its Own Internet Because It Thought the US Would Mess It Up https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbbzq/canada-wanted-its-own-internet-in-the-70s

Joseph, D. (2019) Platforms for People Not Profit https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/platforms-for-people-not-profit

Joseph, D. (2016) What Should Socialists Do About the Internet? https://thesparkjournal.tumblr.com/post/175356707344/what-should-socialists-do-about-the-internet

Smythe, D. (1977) Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ctheory/article/view/13715

Smythe, D. (1981) The Audience Commodity (chapter from Dependency Road)

Hirsch, J. “Future Fiber” (mentioned re: municipal internet infrastructure): https://news.metaviews.ca/tag/fibre/

Debray, R. (2007) Socialism: A Life Cycle https://newleftreview.org/issues/II46/articles/regis-debray-socialism-a-life-cycle (in which some silly things about Stalin and Mao are said but interesting premise)

Morozov, E. (2019) Digital Socialism https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism
(containing a critique of Zuboff’s “Surveillance Capitalism”)