Fuchs, Christian and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC–Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple.c.at) 10 (2): 127-632. Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce publication of tripleC's special issue "Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today" that contains 29 contributions on more than 500 pages. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/current The entire issue as one single file is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/427 The contributions shows that Marx and Marxism are truly back! With kind regards, Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco --- Table of Contents 127-140 Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Introduction: Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. Marx, the Media, Commodities, and Capital Accumulation 141-155 Nicole S. Cohen Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation 156-170 Mattias Ekman Understanding Accumulation: The Relevance of Marx’s Theory of Primitive Accumulation in Media and Communication Studies 171-183 Eran Fisher How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites 184-202 Richard Hall and Bernd Stahl Against Commodification: The University, Cognitive Capitalism and Emergent Technologies 203-213 William Henning James Hebblewhite “Means of Communication as Means of Production” Revisited 214-229 Vincent Manzerolle and Atle Mikkola Kjøsen The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration 230-252 George Pleios Communication and Symbolic Capitalism. Rethinking Marxist Communication Theory in the Light of the Information Society 253-273 Robert Prey The Network’s Blindspot: Exclusion, Exploitation and Marx’s Process-Relational Ontology 274-301 Jernej Prodnik A Note on the Ongoing Process of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory 302-312 Jens Schröter The Internet and “Frictionless Capitalism” 313-333 Andreas Wittel Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media Marx and Ideology Critique 334-348 Pablo Castagno Critical Transitions: Marxist Theory and Media Democratization in Post-Neoliberal Argentina 349-391 İrfan Erdogan Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work 392-412 Christian Fuchs Towards Marxian Internet Studies 413-424 Christian Garland and Stephen Harper Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies 425-438 Jim McGuigan The Coolness of Capitalism Today 439-456 Brice Nixon Dialectical Method and the Critical Political Economy of Culture 457-473 Michelle Rodino-Colocino “Feminism” as Ideology: Sarah Palin’s Anti-feminist Feminism and Ideology Critique 474-487 Gerald Sussman Systemic Propaganda as Ideology and Productive Exchange Marx and Media Use 488-508 Brian A. Brown and Anabel Quan-Haase “A Workers’ Inquiry 2.0”: An Ethnographic Method for the Study of Produsage in Social Media Contexts 509-517 Katarina Giritli Nygren and Katarina L Gidlund The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture Marx, Alternative/Socialist Media and Social Struggles 518-536 Miriyam Aouragh Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions 537-554 Lee Artz 21st Century Socialism: Making a State for Revolution 555-569 Peter Ludes Updating Marx’s Concept of Alternatives 570-576 Vincent Mosco Marx is Back, But Which One? On Knowledge Labour and Media Practice 577-599 Wilhelm Peekhaus The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate 600-617 Sebastian Sevignani The Problem of Privacy in Capitalism and the Alternative Social Networking Site Diaspora* 618-632 Padmaja Shaw Marx as Journalist: Revisiting the Free Speech Debate