Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age

Chapter 1 Introduction: Value and Labour in the Digital Age

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

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

Chapter 5 Marx in Chinese Online Space: Some Thoughts on the Labour Problem in Chinese Internet Industries

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

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

Chapter 8 Advertising on Social Media: The Reality behind the Ideology of “Free Access”: The Case of Chinese Social Media Platforms

Chapter 9 Mapping Approaches to User Participation and Digital Labour: A Critical Perspective

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

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

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

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

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