--- _id: '53810' author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Fuchs, Christian id: '21863' last_name: Fuchs orcid: 0000-0003-0589-4579 citation: ama: 'Fuchs C. Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 2024;22(1):148-196. doi:10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454' apa: 'Fuchs, C. (2024). Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique., 22(1), 148–196. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454' bibtex: '@article{Fuchs_2024, title={Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective}, volume={22}, DOI={10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454}, number={1}, journal={tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.}, author={Fuchs, Christian}, year={2024}, pages={148–196} }' chicago: 'Fuchs, Christian. “Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 22, no. 1 (2024): 148–96. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454.' ieee: 'C. Fuchs, “Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective,” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique., vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 148–196, 2024, doi: 10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454.' mla: 'Fuchs, Christian. “Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique., vol. 22, no. 1, 2024, pp. 148–96, doi:10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454.' short: 'C. Fuchs, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. 22 (2024) 148–196.' date_created: 2024-05-01T22:01:10Z date_updated: 2024-05-01T22:03:11Z department: - _id: '11' - _id: '136' doi: 10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454 intvolume: ' 22' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - url: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1454 page: 148-196 project: - _id: '1086' name: 'PÖDIM: Politische Ökonomie der digitalen Medien und der digitalen Kommunikation' publication: 'tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique.' publication_identifier: issn: - 1726-670X - 1726-670X publication_status: published status: public title: 'Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective' type: journal_article user_id: '21863' volume: 22 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '54870' author: - first_name: Graham full_name: Murdock, Graham last_name: Murdock - first_name: Christian full_name: Fuchs, Christian id: '21863' last_name: Fuchs orcid: 0000-0003-0589-4579 - first_name: Thomas full_name: Allmer, Thomas id: '98373' last_name: Allmer citation: ama: 'Murdock G, Fuchs C, Allmer T. Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 2024;22(1):60-85. doi:10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485' apa: 'Murdock, G., Fuchs, C., & Allmer, T. (2024). Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 22(1), 60–85. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485' bibtex: '@article{Murdock_Fuchs_Allmer_2024, title={Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock}, volume={22}, DOI={10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485}, number={1}, journal={tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society}, publisher={Information Society Research}, author={Murdock, Graham and Fuchs, Christian and Allmer, Thomas}, year={2024}, pages={60–85} }' chicago: 'Murdock, Graham, Christian Fuchs, and Thomas Allmer. “Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 22, no. 1 (2024): 60–85. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485.' ieee: 'G. Murdock, C. Fuchs, and T. Allmer, “Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock,” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 60–85, 2024, doi: 10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485.' mla: 'Murdock, Graham, et al. “Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 22, no. 1, Information Society Research, 2024, pp. 60–85, doi:10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485.' short: 'G. Murdock, C. Fuchs, T. Allmer, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 22 (2024) 60–85.' date_created: 2024-06-24T11:27:51Z date_updated: 2024-06-24T11:31:23Z ddc: - '380' department: - _id: '136' doi: 10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485 file: - access_level: closed content_type: application/pdf creator: chfuchs date_created: 2024-06-24T11:29:49Z date_updated: 2024-06-24T11:29:49Z file_id: '54871' file_name: 1485-Article Text-6192-1-10-20240624.pdf file_size: 7153401 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2024-06-24T11:29:49Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 22' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i1.1485 oa: '1' page: 60-85 project: - _id: '1084' name: 'PÖM: Politische Ökonomie der Medien und der Kommunikation' publication: 'tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society' publication_identifier: issn: - 1726-670X - 1726-670X publication_status: published publisher: Information Society Research status: public title: 'Critical Political Economy of Culture and Communication: An Interview with Graham Murdock' type: journal_article user_id: '21863' volume: 22 year: '2024' ... --- _id: '56375' abstract: - lang: eng text: Apple is one of the most dominant and most admired computer companies in the world. But hidden behind the clean surface of Apple’s advanced gadgets lies a dirty world of work. This paper focuses on the dark side of the information age by looking at working conditions in the workshops of Apple’s contract manufacturers in China. For this purpose I suggest a systematic model of working conditions that can be used for assessing and comparing work in different industries. Departing from Karl Marx’s circuit of capital it identifies elements that shape working conditions throughout the capital accumulation process including productive forces, relations of production, the production process, products, and labour legislation. Subsequently I apply this model to the realm of electronics manufacturing. Based on research conducted by corporate watchdogs this paper provides detailed insights into the work and life reality of workers in Apple’s first tier supplier factories. An analysis of Apple’s response to labour rights allegations furthermore reveals three ideological patterns that rather obscure existing problems than offering viable solutions. author: - first_name: Marisol full_name: Sandoval, Marisol id: '110918' last_name: Sandoval citation: ama: 'Sandoval M. Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 2018;11(2):318-347. doi:10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481' apa: 'Sandoval, M. (2018). Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 11(2), 318–347. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481' bibtex: '@article{Sandoval_2018, title={Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China.}, volume={11}, DOI={10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481}, number={2}, journal={tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society}, publisher={Information Society Research}, author={Sandoval, Marisol}, year={2018}, pages={318–347} }' chicago: 'Sandoval, Marisol. “Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 11, no. 2 (2018): 318–47. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481.' ieee: 'M. Sandoval, “Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China.,” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 318–347, 2018, doi: 10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481.' mla: 'Sandoval, Marisol. “Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 11, no. 2, Information Society Research, 2018, pp. 318–47, doi:10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481.' short: 'M. Sandoval, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 11 (2018) 318–347.' date_created: 2024-10-07T12:25:57Z date_updated: 2024-10-07T15:54:32Z doi: 10.31269/triplec.v11i2.481 intvolume: ' 11' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng page: 318-347 publication: 'tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society' publication_identifier: issn: - 1726-670X - 1726-670X publication_status: published publisher: Information Society Research status: public title: 'Foxconned Labour as the Dark Side of the Information Age: Working Conditions at Apple’s Contract Manufacturers in China.' type: journal_article user_id: '110918' volume: 11 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '56373' abstract: - lang: eng text: The overall task of this paper is to elaborate a typology of the forms of labour that are needed for the production, circulation and use of digital media. First, we introduce a cultural-materialist perspective on theorising digital labour. Second, we discuss the relevance of Marx’s concept of the mode of production for the analysis of digital labour. Third, we introduce a typology of the dimensions of working conditions. Fourth, based on the preceding sections we present a digital labour analysis toolbox. Finally, we draw some conclusions. We engage with the question what labour is, how it differs from work, which basic dimensions it has and how these dimensions can be used for defining digital labour. We introduce the theoretical notion of the mode of production as analytical tool for conceptualizing digital labour. Modes of production are dialectical units of relations of production and productive forces. Relations of production are the basic social relations that shape the economy. Productive forces are a combination of labour power, objects and instruments of work in a work process, in which new products are created. We have a deeper look at dimensions of the work process and the conditions under which it takes place. We present a typology that identifies dimensions of working conditions. It is a general typology that can be used for the analysis of any production process. author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Fuchs, Christian last_name: Fuchs - first_name: Marisol full_name: Sandoval, Marisol id: '110918' last_name: Sandoval citation: ama: 'Fuchs C, Sandoval M. Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 2018;12(2). doi:10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549' apa: 'Fuchs, C., & Sandoval, M. (2018). Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549' bibtex: '@article{Fuchs_Sandoval_2018, title={Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour}, volume={12}, DOI={10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549}, number={2}, journal={tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society}, publisher={Information Society Research}, author={Fuchs, Christian and Sandoval, Marisol}, year={2018} }' chicago: 'Fuchs, Christian, and Marisol Sandoval. “Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12, no. 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549.' ieee: 'C. Fuchs and M. Sandoval, “Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour,” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 12, no. 2, 2018, doi: 10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549.' mla: 'Fuchs, Christian, and Marisol Sandoval. “Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 12, no. 2, Information Society Research, 2018, doi:10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549.' short: 'C. Fuchs, M. Sandoval, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12 (2018).' date_created: 2024-10-07T12:25:41Z date_updated: 2024-10-07T15:55:10Z doi: 10.31269/triplec.v12i2.549 intvolume: ' 12' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng publication: 'tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society' publication_identifier: issn: - 1726-670X - 1726-670X publication_status: published publisher: Information Society Research status: public title: Digital Workers of the World Unite! A Framework for Critically Theorising and Analysing Digital Labour type: journal_article user_id: '110918' volume: 12 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '56369' abstract: - lang: eng text: This article discusses the experience of being an academic in the UK in the contemporary climate of neoliberal capitalism and ‘metric power’ (Beers 2016). Drawing on existing literature and our own practice, the first portion of the paper explores the relationship between neoliberalism, metrics and knowledge. We then examine how neoliberal mantras and instruments impact the university’s structures and processes, and reflect on consequences for the academic self. We take as a starting point the context of increasing workloads and the pressure on academics to excel in multiple roles, from ‘world-leading’ researchers to ‘excellent’ teachers and ‘service providers’ to professional administrators performing recruitment and (self)marketing tasks. Neoliberal academia, we suggest, promotes a meritocratic ideology of individual achievement that frames success and failure as purely personal ‘achievements’, which encourages a competitive ethos and chronic self-criticism. This article insists that these problems need to be understood in the context of neoliberal policy-making and the corporatisation of knowledge, including funding cuts and grant imperatives, the low status of teaching, the cynical instrumentation of university league tables, and increased institutional reliance on precarious academic labour. The article goes on to focus on responses that resist, challenge or, in some cases, compound, the problems identified in part one. Responses by dissatisfied academics range in style and approach – some decide against an academic career; others adopt a strategy of individual withdrawal within the system by trying to create and protect spaces of independence – for example, by refusing to engage beyond officially required minimums. This article argues that opportunities for positive systemic change can be found in collective efforts to oppose the status quo and to create alternatives for how academic labour is organised. Therein, solidarity can act as an instrument of opposition to the individualisation of the neoliberal academic self. author: - first_name: Zeena full_name: Feldman, Zeena last_name: Feldman - first_name: Marisol full_name: Sandoval, Marisol id: '110918' last_name: Sandoval citation: ama: 'Feldman Z, Sandoval M. Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 2018;16(1):214-233. doi:10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899' apa: 'Feldman, Z., & Sandoval, M. (2018). Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 16(1), 214–233. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899' bibtex: '@article{Feldman_Sandoval_2018, title={Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University}, volume={16}, DOI={10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899}, number={1}, journal={tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society}, publisher={Information Society Research}, author={Feldman, Zeena and Sandoval, Marisol}, year={2018}, pages={214–233} }' chicago: 'Feldman, Zeena, and Marisol Sandoval. “Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 16, no. 1 (2018): 214–33. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899.' ieee: 'Z. Feldman and M. Sandoval, “Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University,” tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 214–233, 2018, doi: 10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899.' mla: 'Feldman, Zeena, and Marisol Sandoval. “Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University.” TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, vol. 16, no. 1, Information Society Research, 2018, pp. 214–33, doi:10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899.' short: 'Z. Feldman, M. Sandoval, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 16 (2018) 214–233.' date_created: 2024-10-07T12:23:00Z date_updated: 2024-10-07T15:57:51Z doi: 10.31269/triplec.v16i1.899 intvolume: ' 16' issue: '1' language: - iso: eng page: 214-233 publication: 'tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society' publication_identifier: issn: - 1726-670X - 1726-670X publication_status: published publisher: Information Society Research status: public title: 'Metric Power and the Academic Self: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University' type: journal_article user_id: '110918' volume: 16 year: '2018' ...