How less alienation creates more exploitation? audience labour on social network sites

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-183

  Fisher, Eran ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Audience labour; Exploitation; Marxism; Political economy; Social media; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861746964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/vol10iss2pp171-183     Document Type: Article

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