Audience labor in the new media environment: A marxian revisiting of the audience commodity

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 693-708

  Caraway, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

audience commodity; audiences; Dallas Smythe; Marxism; media economics; new media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959743581     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443711404463     Document Type: Article

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