This paper deals with the questions: What is digital labour? work? Based on Marx’s theory, we distinguish between work and labour as anthropological historical forms of human activity. The notion alienated grounded in a general model process that conceptualized based dialectic subject object economy present form model, Hegelian-Marxist dialectical triangle process. Various aspects Marxist theory labour, such notions abstract concrete double-free productive collective worker are presented....

The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it changing – this how the quintessence of Jürgen Habermas’s monumental study on Structural Transformation Public Sphere (1989) could be summarized in simple words. In fields sociology social theory, history, but also research movements, cultural studies, media communication his conception as a mediating between state civil society has had decisive influence debate about potential collective reason modern democracy. introduction we...

This paper deals with the questions: What is digital labour? work? Based on Marx’s theory, we distinguish between work and labour as anthropological historical forms of human activity. The notion alienated grounded in a general model process that conceptualized based dialectic subject object economy present form model, Hegelian-Marxist dialectical triangle process. Various aspects Marxist theory labour, such notions abstract concrete double-free productive collective worker are presented....

This paper elaborates on a theory of the ideological public sphere in age digital media. It describes as an initially ascending and then descending communication process that includes both polarising integrating publics, which are organised by antagonistic media compromise-building mass framework allows us to distinguish between hegemonic, populist, popular-oriented flows communication, well register changes interplay different publics driven platforms. Digital transformations give rise...

Journal Article The commodification of privacy on the Internet Get access Sebastian Sevignani Unified Theory Information Research Group, Jakob-Gelb-Platz 5, 81543 Munich, Germany; Email: sebastian.sevignani@uti.at. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Science and Public Policy, Volume 40, Issue 6, December 2013, Pages 733–739, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/sct082 Published: 12 November 2013

This paper contributes to the social theoretical foundations of a sociology media and communication by making use cultural–historical school in psychology. Such perspective gains relevance digital capitalism blurring production Internet usage. The first revisits Habermas’s influential notion communicative action agency. Second, it uses activity theory as an alternative, more promising way theorising because links closer work. A model is introduced conceptual link between human tool...

In this paper, l examine the alternative social networking site Diaspora* from a Marxist standpoint. The investigation focuses on privacy, and contributes to better understanding of issue within context capitalism in general. First, I describe Diaspora*’s way production by pointing out its character as part free software copyleft movement. Second, dominant theories privacy related individual control, exclusion, property are introduced. Third, problem is described wherein concepts will be...

Ownership has been a core research theme in parts of media and communication science since its establishment as distinct field. In particular, scholars the field political economy media, sociology industry studies typically pay close attention to role ownership on various processes. this article, we argue, however, that treated largely black box ignoring inner workings dynamics it. Filling void, reach out from economy, well social legal philosophy discuss two options conceptually grasp...

In 1845, Karl Marx (1845, 571) formulated the 11th Feuerbach Thesis: “The philosophers have only interpreted world in various ways; point is to change it.” Today, interpreting has become an important form of labour that expressed on and with help digital media. this context it common talk about virtual work. Yet changes digital, social, mobile media bring work thus far been little theoretically interpreted. order information society for better, we first interpret critical theories. Social...

As someone who works interdisciplinarily between media and communication studies sociology with an overall interest in critical social theory, Habermas' "most successful" (Habermas, 2022a, p. 145) book is important at least three respects: He develops a normative, concept of the public sphere formation opinion, which aims democratizing domination, that ties it to process unrestricted discussion questions general involving all those affected. The development this possibility, but also...