[artinfo] Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media

[Christian Fuchs]

New book: Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Culture and Economy in the Age of 
Social Media. New York: Routledge. 424 pages. ISBN Paperback 
978-1-13-883931-1. ISBN Hardcover 978-1-13-883929-8

More info (plus possibility to order review copies, library copies, 
and examination copies for courses)
http://fuchs.uti.at/books/culture-and-economy-in-the-age-of-social-media/

This book applies Raymond Williams' approach of Cultural Materialism 
to critically analyse cultural labour, digital labour, ideology, 
politics, democracy, the public sphere, globalisation, social media 
in China, the international division of digital labour, productive 
labour, and social struggles in the age of digital capitalism.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
PART I: Theoretical Foundations
2. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval: Culture and Work
3. Communication, Ideology, and Labour
PART II: Social Media's Cultural Political Economy of Time
4. Social Media and Labour Time
5. Social Media and Productive Labour
PART III: Social Media's Cultural Political Economy of Global Space
6. Social Media's International Division of Digital Labour
7. Baidu, Weibo, and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social 
Media in China
PART IV: Alternatives
8. Social Media and the Public Sphere
9. Conclusion

Related books:

Christian Fuchs (2014): Digital labour and Karl Marx, 
http://fuchs.uti.at/books/digital-labour-and-karl-marx

Christian Fuchs (2014): OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social 
Media in Crisis Capitalism
http://fuchs.uti.at/books/occupymedia-the-occupy-movement-and-social-media-in-crisis-capitalism