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Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet
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This article argues that in informational capitalism, the notion of class should not be confined to capital as one class and wage labor as the other class. The notion of class needs to be expanded to include everybody who creates and recreates spaces of common experience, such as user-generated content on the Internet, through their practices. These spaces and experiences are appropriated and thereby expropriated and exploited by capital to accumulate capital. The rise of informational capitalism requires us to rethink the notion of class and to relate the class concept to knowledge labor.
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“Therefore it is better to speak in the case of Facebook and other corporate social media of Internet prosumer commodification (Fuchs 2010).”
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“Due to the permanent activity of the recipients and their status as prosumers, we can say that in the case of corporate social media the audience commodity is an Internet prosumer commodity (Fuchs 2010).”
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“If Internet users become productive prosumers, then in terms of Marxian class theory this means that they become productive labourers who produce surplus value and are exploited by capital because for Marx productive labour generates surplus value (Fuchs 2010).”
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- Authors
- Fuchs, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Salzburg (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Fuchs, Christian
- ORCID
- Fuchs, Christian
- Venue
- The Information Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-04-30
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 179-196
- ISSN
- 0197-2243 (ISSN-L)
- 1087-6537
- OpenAlex
- W2115906093
- Cited by
- 630
- References
- 57
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- FWCI
- 90.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Information Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Information Society and Technology Trends
- Keywords
- information capitalism, class, labor, user-generated content, internet, common experience, appropriations, expropriation, capital accumulation, class analysis
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