[P2P-F] book announcement: Digital Transitions

Fri Apr 8 15:57:36 CEST 2016

This book may be of interest to political economists of media and
communication.
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Wittel, Andreas (2016), Digital Transitions. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic
Publishing.

Description: Digital Transitions explores the relationship between
technological changes and the social, political, economic, and cultural
contexts in which these changes occur. Digital technologies have moved into
every corner of life and the classic separation between work and non-work
has become obsolete. The digital economy has become indistinguishable from
life in the digital age. This is a book about the merger of economy and
life, about life in digital capitalism. It explores four moments of digital
transitions: The first chapter explores transitions of sharing, both as a
concept or an ideology and as a social practice. The second chapter
explores a transition in the political economy of media and communication
and its recent turn to the work of Marx. The third chapter focuses on the
building of the digital commons and its very particular economy of
contribution. The final chapter turns the light on academic cultures and
inspects the activist turn in academia.

Keywords: political economy; Marx; capitalism; digital media; activism;
sharing; digital commons

Here you can order a copy for your library.

https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-659-77964-0/digital-transitions

Or here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Transitions-Andreas-Wittel/dp/3659779644

Here you can download a free PDF file of the book.

https://www.academia.edu/22598468/Digital_Transitions
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