Communication and Information Technologies Annual: [New] Media Cultures

With contributions from over 20 leading scholars from across the globe, this new book brings together a number of papers that have been presented at the annual International Labour Process Conference, at which the conference theme 'Working Revolutions: Revolutionising Work' provided the inspiration for ...

Information and communication technologies have revolutionized our working practices. This book explores these transformations, and investigates both the impact of information technology on working practices and, how IT is bound up in social, political, and economic issues.

Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classical "Arcades Project", this book offers an exploration of the interface between communication, shopping and everyday life. It scrutinises four main media circuits - print media, media images, sound and motion, and hardware machines - to assess how media texts and technologies are selected, purchased and used.