Activity

1. capital accumulation in the media industry;
2. advertising, public relations and sales promotion for other industries;
3. legitimization of domination and ideological manipulation;
4. reproduction, regeneration and qualification of labour-power.

[...] For Graham Murdock and Peter Golding (1974, 4), the media are organizations that "produce and distribute commodities", are means for distributing advertisements and also have an "ideological dimension" by disseminating "ideas about economic and political structures". Murdock (1978, 469) stres…

[...] mentions that social network markets may have hubs and be dominated by elites, but this analysis is not systematically connected to power inequalities in society. It rather seems that Hartley assumes that such markets are nonetheless a realm of democracy because many have communicative tools …

[...] prices cannot simply be derived and calculated from labour values, but depend on the politics of class struggle. [...]

[...] Capital aims at lowering the price of wage labour (wages) and increasing the price of commodities in order to increase profits. Workers can refuse work in the form of strikes and thereby attack the wage mediation and money profit, and they can refuse or eliminate prices by trying to obtain us…