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Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism (Critical Digital and Social Media Studies) - Softcover
Synopsis
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’s 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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About the Author
Dr. Mariano Zukerfeld is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina, Lecturer in Sociology of ICTs at Buenos Aires University (UBA) and Head of the Technology, Capitalism and Society team (e-TCS) at the Science Technology and Society Center, Maimonides University.
Review
‘A sustained and well-informed critical philosophical study of knowledge in society and capitalism.’ — Professor Christian Fuchs, author of Social Media: A Critical Introduction
‘A bold, comprehensive theoretical book, offering a new understanding of knowledge and its role in capitalism, historically, and today.’ — Dr Eran Fisher, author of Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks
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- PublisherUniversity of Westminster Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1911534246
- ISBN 13 9781911534242
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages271
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