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1 online resource (272 pages) |
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| Series |
Critical Digital and Social Media Studies |
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CDSMS (Series)
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Capitalism, physical property and intellectual property -- How to know knowledge? Introducing cognitive materialism -- The typology of knowledge -- Knowledge flows: from translation to capitalism -- Capitalist exploitation -- Classes: a theory from cognitive materialist perspective -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism as totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time. |
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English. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Information theory.
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Information Theory |
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Théorie de l'information.
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Communication studies.
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Humanities.
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Interdisciplinary studies.
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Media studies.
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge.
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Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
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Social theory.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Sociology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Critical Theory.
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Information theory
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| Indexed Term |
Capitalism |
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Cognitive |
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Intellectual property |
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Knowledge |
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Marxism |
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Materialism |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781911534242 |
| ISBN |
9781911534259 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534254 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534246 |
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9781911534242 |
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9781911534242 |
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1911534246 |
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9781911534266 |
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1911534262 |
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9781911534273 |
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1911534270 |
| Standard No. |
9781911534242 |
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10.16997/book3 doi |
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AU@ 000065197406 |
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UKMGB 019437734 |
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