[Commlist] Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication - special issue published

We are please to announce the publication of Control, Survival, 
Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of 
Communication, a special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and 
Globalisation (WOLG).

This final issue of the journal pays tribute to the intellectual legacy 
of Vincent Mosco, a towering figure in the political economy of 
communication who supported (WOLG)  from its inception. Mosco was 
prescient in writing about many important contemporary issues such as 
the importance of the cloud and its environmental implications, AI and 
the concept of ‘smart cities’, long before they reached the attention of 
most politicians or academics. He anticipated many of the questions that 
now confront us so urgently.

Rather than simply memorialising his scholarship and praxis, this 
special issue looks to the future. Leading figures in the political 
economy of communications apply Mosco’s theoretical approach to pressing 
issues that confront us today, presenting cutting-edge research on the 
impact of AI on labour, education and daily life, the relationship of 
the Trump administration to media and Big Tech corporations, and the new 
political and institutional configurations that are emerging in the 
military-industrial complex. Articles highlight the continuing relevance 
of Mosco’s contributions to political-economic scholarship, pedagogies, 
research methods and labour studies. At the end of his career, Mosco 
wrote eloquently about the importance of developing alternative utopias 
as a means of imagining democratic futures and inspiring hope. The issue 
ends with a group of articles that address this final, crucial goal.


Edited by Catherine McKercher, Leslie Regan Shade, Nicole Cohen and 
Ursula Huws, with contributions from:

Gerald Sussman
Andrew Stevens
Sydney L. Forde & Mandy Tröger
Jernej A. Prodnik
Thomas F. Corrigan
Aliaa Dakroury
Dal Yong Jin
Ergin Bulut
Karen Louise Smith
Sandra Smeltzer
Christopher Ali
Brian Dolber
Jianhua Yao
Nicole S. Cohen & Madison Trusolino
Davina M. DesRoches
Toby Miller
Nick Dyer-Witheford & Greig de Peuter
Mark Andrejevic
Tai Neilson
Micky Lee
Sašo Slaček Brlek
Lee McGuigan & Vincent   Manzerolle
Victoria Fleming & Fergie  Maxwell
Graham Murdock
Jin Cao & Haofan Cao
Tanner Mirrlees
Patricia Mazepa
Andrew Herman & Vincent  Manzerolle
Janet Wasko & Jeremy Swartz
Victor Pickard

All articles are available to read and download for free: 
https://www.scienceopen.com/journal-issue?id=57d694e5-1f8b-4ceb-89af-db7c409fc92b 



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