A note on the ongoing processes of commodification: From the audience commodity to the social factory

TripleC

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 274-301

  Prodnik, Jernej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Audience commodity; Capitalism; Commodification; Commodity form; Communication capitalism; Critical communication studies; Critique of political economy; Internet; Political economy of communication; Social factory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861724282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.409     Document Type: Article

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