Critique, social media and the information society /

Critique, social media and the information society / edited by Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval. - London: Routledge, 2014. - viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval Part I: Critical Studies of the Information Society 2. Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social Media Christian Fuchs 3. Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society Wolfgang Hofkirchner 4. Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Emerging Scholars Sebastian Sevignani, Robert Prey, Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer, Jernej Amon Prodnik and Verena Kreilinger 5. Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and Communication Society Gunilla Bradley Part II: Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies 6. Great Refusal or Long March: How to Think About the Internet Andrew Feenberg 7. Producing Consumerism: Commodities, Ideologies, Practices Graham Murdock 8. Social Media?: The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media Marisol Sandoval 9. The Global Worker and the Digital Front Nick Dyer-Witheford 10. Alienation's Returns Mark Andrejevic 11. Social Media and Political Participation: Discourse and Deflection Peter Dahlgren 12. "The Architecture of Participation": For Citizens or Consumers? Tobias Olsson Part III: Critical Studies of Communication Labour 13. Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States Catherine McKercher 14. Flight as Fight: Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism Margareta Melin 15. Marx is Back, But Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?: On the Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today Vincent Mosco

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Information society.
Social media.
Capitalism.
Power (Social sciences)
Cooperation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General.
COMPUTERS / Web / Social Networking.

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