New book: Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media. New York: Routledge. 424 pages. ISBN Paperback 978-1-13-883931-1. ISBN Hardcover 978-1-13-883929-8 More info (plus possibility to order review copies, library copies, and examination copies for courses) http://fuchs.uti.at/books/culture-and-economy-in-the-age-of-social-media/ This book applies Raymond Williams' approach of Cultural Materialism to critically analyse cultural labour, digital labour, ideology, politics, democracy, the public sphere, globalisation, social media in China, the international division of digital labour, productive labour, and social struggles in the age of digital capitalism. Table of Contents 1. Introduction PART I: Theoretical Foundations 2. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval: Culture and Work 3. Communication, Ideology, and Labour PART II: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Time 4. Social Media and Labour Time 5. Social Media and Productive Labour PART III: Social Media’s Cultural Political Economy of Global Space 6. Social Media’s International Division of Digital Labour 7. Baidu, Weibo, and Renren: The Global Political Economy of Social Media in China PART IV: Alternatives 8. Social Media and the Public Sphere 9. Conclusion Related books: Christian Fuchs (2014): Digital labour and Karl Marx, http://fuchs.uti.at/books/digital-labour-and-karl-marx Christian Fuchs (2014): 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