Reading Marx in the Information Age

<p>Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough chapter-by-chapter introduction to <em>Capital Volume 1</em> that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Internet digital labour social media the media industries and digital class struggles. Through a range of international current-day examples Fuchs emphasises the continued importance of Marx and his work in a time when transnational media companies like Amazon Google and Facebook play an increasingly important role in global capitalism. Discussion questions and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to further apply Marx’s work to a modern-day context.</p>