Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age

by Christian Fuchs (Editor), Eran Fisher (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under conditions of virtuality, and employ the theory in order to shed light on specific practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137478566
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Series:	Dynamics of Virtual Work
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Thomas Allmer, University of Edinburgh, UK. Olivier Frayssé, University of Paris Sorbonne, France. Andrea Fumagalli, University of Pavia, Italy. Kylie Jarrett, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland. Arwid Lund, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Yuqi Na, University of Westminster, UK. Brice Nixon, University of La Verne, US. Frederick H. Pitts, University of Bath, UK. Jernej Amon Prodnik, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Jakob Rigi, SOAS, London University, UK. Marisol Sandoval, City University London, UK. Sebastian Sevignani, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany. Bingqing Xia, Macau University of Science and Technology, China.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age; Christian Fuchs and Eran Fisher
2. The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo; Christian Fuchs
3. The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture. Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour; Marisol Sandoval
PART I: LABOUR AND CLASS
4. A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour; Arwid Lund
5. Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet industries; Bingqing Xia
PART II: THE LABOUR OF INTERNET USERS
6. The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era; Brice Nixon
7. Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories; Eran Fisher
8. Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of 'Free Access'. The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms; Yuqi Na
PART III: RENT AND THE COMMONS
9. Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective; Thomas Allmer, Sebastian Sevignani, Jernej Prodnik
10. Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?; Olivier Frayssé
11. The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri; Jakob Rigi
PART IV: PRODUCTIVITY IN REPRODUCTION 
12. Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour; Kylie Jarrett
13. The Concept of the Subsumption of Labour under Capital: Life Subsumption in Cognitive-Biocapitalism; Andrea Fumagalli
14. Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx's 'Work of Combustion' and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour; Frederick H. Pitts