How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and" social media" such as
Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs …

In the last decade our mobile phones have been infiltrated by angry birds, our computers by
leagues of legends and our social networks by pleas for help down on the farm. As digital …

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to
express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our …

This fifth edition of Visual Methodologies contains some significant differences from its
predecessor. The opening chapters have been reorganised to provide a clearer introduction …

In 1977, Dallas Smythe published his seminal article Communications: Blindspot of Western
Marxism (Smythe 1977a), in which he argued that Western Marxism has not given enough …

How do you start to conduct your own research? Where do you go to get ideas? How do you
design a good research project? How does it relate to the rest of your studies? What is the …

This article takes issue with the reification of proximity in the current debates about the
geographies of knowledge production. It aims at developing a more differentiated view on …

This pioneering study on fan translation focuses on Italian fansubbing as a concept, a
vibrant cultural and social phenomenon which is described from its inception in 2005 to …

The contribution of Marxist theory to communication studies runs wide and deep (see, for
example, Hardt 1992, Artz, Macek, and Cloud 2006). Two analytical coordinates to the study …

The article explores the distribution of mass media content by the online audience that
connects by using the different social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp …