1. Introduction

2. An Introduction to Karl Marx's Theory

3. Contemporary Cultural Studies and Karl Marx

4. Dallas Smythe and Audience Labour Today

5. Capitalism or Information Society

6. Digital Slavery: Slave Work in ICT-Related Mineral Extraction

7. Exploitation at Foxconn: Primitive Accumulation and the Formal Subsumption of Labour

8. The New Imperialism's Division of Labour: Work in the Indian Software Industry

9. The Silicon Valley of Dreams and Nightmares of Exploitation: The Google Labour Aristocracy and Its Context

he cites Glassdoor salary stats from 2013 and comes up with $112,915 as the average salary for a software engineer at Google (US) which is obviously problematic cus it doesn't control for city or time (salaries had been rising for the few years before that) or include stock/bonus (which, at least for me, added over 40%). for senior he gets $114,692

10. Tayloristic, Housewifized Service Labour: The Example of Call Centre Work

11. Theorizing Digital Labour on Social Media

12. Digital Labour and Struggles for Digital Work: The Occupy Movement as a New Working-Class Movement? Social Media as Working-Class Social Media?

1. Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today

2. Towards Marxian Internet Studies

by Christian Fuchs

1. Introduction: Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet

2. Georg Lukács as a Communications Scholar: Cultural and Digital Labour in the Context of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being

3. Theodor W. Adorno and the Critical Theory of Knowledge

4. Herbert Marcuse and Social Media

5. The Internet, Social Media and Axel Honneth’s Interpretation of Georg Lukács’ Theory of Reification and Alienation

6. Beyond Habermas: Rethinking Critical Theories of Communication

7. Conclusion

13. Class and Exploitation on the Internet

by Christian Fuchs

18. Dallas Smythe Reloaded: Critical Media and Communication Studies Today

by Christian Fuchs