OccupyMedia!
Subtitle: the occupy movement and social media in crisis capitalism
By: Christian Fuchs
Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781782794066
Subjects: Social media; Political aspects; Economic aspects; Occupy movement
Description: The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet contemporary social media are ridden by an antagonism between private corporate control (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and self-managed, commons-based activist media. In this work, Christian Fuchs analyses the contradictory dialectic of social media in the Occupy movement. -from back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-171).