[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Win a copy of “OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism”

Sun Sep 21 11:44:23 CEST 2014

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From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at>
Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:34 PM
Subject: [Networkedlabour] Win a copy of “OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement
and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism”
To: networkedlabour at lists.contrast.org

http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/22

You can win one of 20 copies of Christian Fuchs’ new book “OccupyMedia! The
Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism”
http://fuchs.uti.at/books/occupymedia-the-occupy-
movement-and-social-media-in-crisis-capitalism/
by participating in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique’s (
http://www.triple-c.at) commonist social media contest:

Send tripleC a self-made picture (jpg format) as well as a 500 word short
text that symbolises and deals with the following two questions:

What’s wrong with capitalism and capitalist social media such as Google,
Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, etc. ? How would a commonist social media world
look like?

Send your picture (just one), text (500 words, not more), and postal
address until Saturday Sep 27 to the tripleC office: office at triple-c.at

The books will be given to the senders of the first 20 submissions
(submissions affirmative of capitalism and opposed to commonism are
excluded from winning because they contradict question #1). Only one
submission per person is possible.

By participating you agree that your picture and text will be published
together with other submissions in a blog post on http://fuchs.uti.at/blog
(if you don’t want to have your name mentioned, then say so in your
submission)

Zero Books will publish the book at the end of October 2014, so the winners
will be among the first getting to read the book.

About the book:

The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global
capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified
commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet
contemporary social media are ridden by an antagonism between private
corporate control (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and self-managed,
commons-based activist media. In this work, Christian Fuchs analyses the
contradictory dialectic of social media in the Occupy movement. Drawing on
a political economy framework and interpretation of the results of the
OccupyMedia! Survey, in which more than 400 Occupy activists reported on
their social media use, OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media
in Crisis Capitalism shows how activists confront the contradictions of
capitalism and communication in the age of crisis and social media. The
book discusses the contradiction between commercial and alternative social
media and argues that the existence of a surveillance-industrial complex
expressed in the PRISM system shows the urgent necessity to create social
media beyond Facebook and Google.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Crisis of Capitalism

2. Protests in Crisis Capitalism

3. Occupy and Digital Media

4. Research Method: The OccuyMedia! Survey

5. Results of the OccupyMedia! Survey
5.1. Analysis of the Respondents’ Demographic Data
5.2. Defining the Occupy Movement
5.3. Occupy and Social Media
5.4. Communicating Activism
5.5. Corporate and Alternative Social Media

6. Interpreting the Data: Social Movement Media
in Crisis Capitalism
6.1. Defining the Occupy Movement
6.2. Occupy and Social Media
6.3. Communicating Activism
6.4. Corporate and Alternative Social Media

7. Alternatives

8.Conclusion: Activism and the Media in a World of Antagonisms

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