Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age

Edited by
Eran Fisher
Open University of Israel
Christian Fuchs
University of Westminster, UK

August 23, 2015

https://www.academia.edu/12978869/BOOK_Reconsidering_value_and_labour_in_the_digital_age

 

Part I Foundations

1 Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age 3

Christian Fuchs and Eran Fisher 

2 The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo 26

Christian Fuchs

3 The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour 42

 Marisol Sandoval

Part II Labour and Class

4 A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour 63

 Arwid Lund 

5 Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on theLabour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries 80

 Bingqing Xia

Part III The Labour of Internet Users

6 The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era 99

 Brice Nixon

7 Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories 11

8 Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind theIdeology of “Free Access”: The Case of Chinese SocialMedia Platforms 133

Yuqi Na

Part IV Rent and the Commons

9 Mapping Approaches to User Participation and DigitalLabour: A Critical Perspective 153

Thomas Allmer, Sebastian Sevignani, and Jernej Amon Prodnik

10 Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus-Value in the Digital World? 172

Olivier Frayssé 

11 The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 188

 Jakob Rigi

Part V Productivity in Reproduction

12 Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour 207

 Kylie Jarrett 

13 The Concept of Subsumption of Labour to Capital:Towards the Life Subsumption in Bio-Cognitive Capitalism 224

 Andrea Fumagalli

14 Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx’s “Work of Combustion” and the Distinction between Productive andUnproductive Labour 246

 Frederick H. Pitts 

Index 260