Leading scholars of media and communication studies examine what Marx and his political economy have to offer their disciplines.

Christian Fuchs is professor at the University of Westminster and editor of the open access online journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. He is author of works such as Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media or Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Routledge, 2015).

Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University where he was Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and head of the Department of Sociology. He is author of books such as To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) and The Political Economy of Communication (Sage, 2009).

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1. Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco

2. Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice
Vincent Mosco

3. Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
Nicole S. Cohen

4. Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies
Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl

5. Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society
George Pleios

6. Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx's Work
Irfan Erdogan

7. Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies
Christian Garland and Stephen Harper

8. The Coolness of Capitalism Today
Jim McGuigan

9. Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method
Brice Nixon

10. "Feminism" as Ideology: Sarah Palin's Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology
Michelle Rodino-Colocino

11. Propaganda as Production
Gerald Sussman

12. Updating Marx's Concept of the Alternatives
Peter Ludes

13. Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model
Wilhelm Peekhaus

14. Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media
Padmaja Shaw

15. The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina
Pablo Castagno

16. "Means of Communication as Means of Production" Revisited
William Henning James Hebblewhite

17. Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela
Lee Artz

18. Dallas Smythe Today - The Audience Commodity, the Digital Labour Debate, Marxist Political Economy and Critical Theory. Prolegomena to a Digital Labour Theory of Value.
Christian Fuchs

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