Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco -- Introduction: Marx is Back - The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco -- Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice / Vincent Mosco -- Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation / Nicole S. Cohen -- Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies / Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl -- Communication and Symbolic Capitalism - Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society / George Pleios -- Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx's Work / İrfan Erdogan -- Did Somebook-body Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies / Christian Garland and Stephen Harper -- The Coolness of Capitalism Today / Jim McGuigan -- Critical Political Economy of Communication and the Problem of Method / Brice Nixon -- "Feminism" as Ideology: Sarah Palin's Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique / Michelle Rodino-Colocino -- Propaganda as Production / Gerald Sussman -- Updating Marx's Concept of Alternatives / Peter Ludes -- Conceptualising and Subverting the Capitalist Academic Publishing Model / Wilhelm Peekhaus -- Marx, Free Speech and the Indian Media / Padmaja Shaw -- The Ideology of Media Policy in Argentina / Pablo Castagno -- "Means of Communication as Means of Production" Revisited / William Henning James Hebblewhite -- Media and Power for 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela / Lee Artz -- 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 -- Index / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco.

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