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Christian Fuchs
Contemporary Society
Corporate Social Media
critical theory analysis
Data Commodities
digital labor
Digital Labour
Digital Labour Debate
digital media
digital platform worker exploitation
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exploitation in tech industries
Global ICT Industry
Global Justice Movement
global supply chain labor
ICT Industry
ICT Manufacture
ICT Manufacture Industry
In-house Call Centres
Indian Call Centre Workers
Indian Software Industry
Information Society Theories
Informational Productive Forces
Internet Prosumer Commodity
karl marx
labor studies
Marx 1867c
marxism
media production
media theory
Occupy Movement
Occupy Wall Street
qualitative labor research
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SILICON VALLEY
social media workforces
Surplus Labour Time
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- ISBN 9780415716161
- Weight: 1160g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from Chinese workers at Foxconn Shenzhen to miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo--Fuchs sheds light on the labour costs of digital media, examining the way ICT corporations exploit human labour and the impact of this exploitation on the lives, bodies, and minds of workers.
Christian Fuchs is professor of social media at the University of Westminster in London. He is the author of more than 180 academic publications in the fields of Internet studies, social media studies, critical social theory and information society studies. He is the chair of the European Sociological Association's Research Network 18 and co-founder of the ICTs and Society Network. Among his publications are the books, Internet and Society, Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies, and the collected volumes, Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media and Critique, Social Media, and the Information Society.
