Rethinking the Concepts of Subsumption, Surplus Value and  Audience Labour in Digital Capitalism

Eduardo Molina Campano; Gilda Márquez Valero; Ramón Soriano Díaz

Authors

Eduardo Molina Campano
Gilda Márquez Valero
Ramón Soriano Díaz

Keywords:

subsumption, surplus value, social media, rent, audience labour, prosumer

Abstract

This article analyzes the concept of subsumption concerning the evolution of labour and surplus value, focusing on the so-called audience labour as that constant users' digital and social media activity of contemporary capitalism. For some authors, this activity directly produces surplus value in abstract and should be considered as productive labour. On the conclusions, we try to add some ideas to the debate in question.

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Rethinking the Concepts of Subsumption, Surplus Value and Audience Labour in Digital Capitalism. (2020). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 20(F4), 21-28. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3341

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