Dallas Smythe today - The audience commodity, the digital labour debate, Marxist political economy and critical theory. Prolegomena to a digital labour theory of value

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Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 692-740

  Fuchs, Christian ^a  

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Audience commodity; Blindspot debate; Critical political economy of media and communication; Critical theory; Dallas Smythe; Internet prosumer commodity; Marx; Marxism

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EID: 84871447812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1726670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v10i2.443     Document Type: Article

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