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 -- Towards Marxian Internet Studies / Christian Fuchs -- Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media / Andreas Wittel -- The Relevance of Marx's Theory of Primitive Accumulation for Media and Communication Research / Mattias Ekman -- The Internet and "Frictionless Capitalism" / Jens Schro̘ter -- Digital Media and Capital's Logic of Acceleration / Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kj℗♭♯łsen -- How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites / Eran Fisher -- The Network's Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx's Process-Relational Ontology / Robert Prey -- 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism / Jernej A. Prodnik -- The Construction of Platform Imperialism in the Globalisation Era / Dal Yong Jin -- Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple's Contract Manufacturers in China / Marisol Sandoval -- The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture / Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund -- The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and Alternative Social Media: The Case of Diaspora / Sebastian Sevignani -- "A Workers' Inquiry 2.0": An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts / Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase -- Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions / Miriyam Aouragh -- Marx in the Cloud / Vincent Mosco -- Index / Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco.

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