[ecrea] Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism - tripleC Special Issue

Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism
Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Edited by Thomas Allmer and Ergin Bulut
Volume 16 (1), 2018, pp. 44-240
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue

We are delighted to announce the publication of the tripleC special 
issue 'Academic Labour, Digital Media and Capitalism’, edited by Thomas 
Allmer and Ergin Bulut. The special issue has been published in tripleC: 
Communication, Capitalism & Critique, volume 16 (1), 2018, pp. 44-240, 
and is available here: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue

The overall task of this special issue is to gather critical 
contributions examining universities, academic labour, digital media, 
and capitalism. The articles collected (1) provide the context, history 
and theoretical concepts underlying academic labour, (2) analyse the 
relationship between academic work and digital media/new information and 
communication technologies/the Internet/social media, and (3) discuss 
the political potentials and challenges within and beyond higher 
education institutions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Thomas Allmer and Ergin Bulut: Introduction: Academic Labour, Digital 
Media and Capitalism

Thomas Allmer: Theorising and Analysing Academic Labour

Maxime Ouellet and Éric Martin: University Transformations and the New 
Knowledge Production Regime in Informational Capitalism

Richard Hall: On the Alienation of Academic Labour and the Possibilities 
for Mass Intellectuality

Marco Briziarelli and Joseph L. Flores: Professing Contradictions: 
Knowledge Work and the Neoliberal Condition of Academic Workers

Jamie Woodcock: Digital Labour in the University: Understanding the 
Transformations of Academic Work in the UK

Jan Fernback: Academic/Digital Work: ICTs, Knowledge Capital, and the 
Question of Educational Quality

Christophe Magis: Manual Labour, Intellectual Labour and Digital 
(Academic) Labour. The Practice/Theory Debate in the Digital Humanities

Karen Gregory and sava saheli singh: Anger in Academic Twitter: Sharing, 
Caring, and Getting Mad Online

Andreas Wittel: Higher Education as a Gift and as a Commons

Zeena Feldman and Marisol Sandoval: Metric Power and the Academic Self: 
Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Resistance in the British University

Güven Bakırezer, Derya Keskin Demirer and Adem Yeşilyurt: In Pursuit 
of an Alternative Academy: The Case of Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity 
(Non-Peer-Reviewed Reflection Article)

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a 
Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the 
challenges humanity is facing in the capitalist information society 
today. It promotes contributions to critical media and communication 
studies following the highest standards of peer review. It is the 
journal´s mission to encourage uncommon sense, fresh perspectives and 
unconventional ideas, and connect leading thinkers and young scholars in 
inspiring reflections. tripleC is indexed in Web of Science Emerging 
Sources Citation Index, SCOPUS, Communication Source (EBSCOhost), DOAJ - 
Directory of Open Access Journals and CSA Sociological Abstracts 
(selected sociological content of tripleC).

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Thomas Allmer is Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of 
Stirling, Scotland, UK, and a member of the Unified Theory of 
Information Research Group, Austria. His publications include 'Towards a 
Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism' (Peter 
Lang, 2012) and 'Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation 
and Commodification' (Routledge, 2015). For further information, please 
see: http://allmer.uti.at

Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Arts in Istanbul. 
His research interests include political economy of media, digital media 
and politics, and media labor. Together with Michael A. Peters, he 
edited 'Cognitive Capitalism, Education and Digital Labor' (Peter Lang, 
2011). His work has been published in International Journal of 
Communication, TV & New Media, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Media, Culture and Society, 
and Journal of Communication Inquiry.



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