A Seeping Commodification: The Long Revolution in the Proliferation of Communication Commodities

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A Seeping Commodification: The Long Revolution in the Proliferation of Communication Commodities

Original language description

The main goal of this paper is to conceptualize a seeping commodification. The author of the paper claims we are in the midst of a considerable qualitative transformation in the processes of commodification that is, in large part, owed to an overwhelmingcapitalist enclosure of the wider communicative field. The key reason for what seems to be an important qualitative transformation in the commodification process lies in the fact that communication and information flows today run through most social relations and spheres - which non-critical approaches often explain with the concept of the 'mediatization of society'. A materialist approach, distinctive of (critical) political economy of communication, enables an apt critique of these processes. In an epoch, in which capital has enclosed the wider field of communication, mediatization is in fact nothing else than a continuing commodification of our everyday lives. The author of the paper claims that commodification of communication and

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

TripleC

ISSN

1726-670X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

142-168

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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