Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age....Pages 3-25
The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo....Pages 26-41
The Hands and Brains of Digital Culture: Arguments for an Inclusive Approach to Cultural Labour....Pages 42-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
A Contribution to a Critique of the Concept Playbour....Pages 63-79
Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries....Pages 80-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Exploitation of Audience Labour: A Missing Perspective on Communication and Capital in the Digital Era....Pages 99-114
Audience Labour on Social Media: Learning from Sponsored Stories....Pages 115-132
Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of “Free Access”: The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms....Pages 133-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective....Pages 153-171
Is the Concept of Rent Relevant to a Discussion of Surplus Value in the Digital World?....Pages 172-187
The Demise of the Marxian Law of Value? A Critique of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri....Pages 188-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Devaluing Binaries: Marxist Feminism and the Value of Consumer Labour....Pages 207-223
The Concept of Subsumption of Labour to Capital: Towards Life Subsumption in Bio-Cognitive Capitalism....Pages 224-245
Form-Giving Fire: Creative Industries as Marx’s “Work of Combustion” and the Distinction between Productive and Unproductive Labour....Pages 246-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-268