Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Media and Communication Studies 3133F/G

NET-WORK: LABOUR AND PROFIT ON FACEBOOK, FLICKR, YOUTUBE AND WEB 2.0


This course will explore the impact that User-Generated Content, Social Networks & Immaterial Labour have had on Autonomist Marxist theory. The course will consider the changes taking place in the nature of the labour process, the products being produced by this shift to immaterial work, and the influence that this shift has had on Autonomist Marxism.

Antirequisite(s): the former MIT 3771F if taken in 2009-10, 2010-11 or 2011-12, Digital Communication 3205F/G.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.

Course Weight: 0.50
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Subject Code: MEDIACOM