Commodification, information, value and profit

Fleissner, Peter

doi:10.1007/s10202-005-0007-y

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“…The latter is more likely where neo-liberal ideologies are popular. Other institutions can also be the source of commodification: the family, institutions of civil society and the state (Fleissner 2006). And when profit is the sole object, the quantity of commodity produced increases.…”

Section: The Youth and Commodification Of Gamblingmentioning

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Canadian Dream, Capitalism, and the State: Structural Conditions of Youth Gambling in Canada

Barmaki

Zangeneh

2007

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Adolescent gambling is a major social problem in North America. Over the years this problem has given rise to a number of theoretical explanations. This paper argues that the existing explanations of youth gambling underestimate the influence of broader structural forces conducive to youth gambling problem and, instead, provide micro analyses that often blames individuals for their gambling problems. As such, these theories produce incomplete pictures of a persistent, cohesive and growing problem. Canadian youth's gambling problem is said to be better understood within the nexus of: (1) the Canadian state's pro-gambling policies due to the need for revenues, (2) the discrepancy between widely shared Canadian cultural values-wealth, power, and success-and legitimate means of achieving them, and (3) the capitalist processes of profit making and commodification.

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Section: The Youth and Commodification Of Gamblingmentioning

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Canadian Dream, Capitalism, and the State: Structural Conditions of Youth Gambling in Canada

Barmaki

Zangeneh

2007

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…In fact, some researchers argue that commodification can be used as a tool for value generation of organizations (e.g., DiZerega, 2004;Fleissner, 2006). They argue that new technologies increase the power of media giants and businesses to commodify audiences and to sell them to advertisers.…”

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Big Data y televisión. Una reflexión crítica sobre el auge del Big Data como nuevo paradigma tecno-económico, y su impacto en el concepto de target de audiencia

Murschetz

Schlütz

2018

Fonseca, Journal of Communication

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“…IT has become an important commodity itself, and a medium of advertisement for commodities, and the selling and transport of information commodities. Therefore information in its IT form is close to the commodity form and has therefore undergone a process of reification that can also be termed commodification (Fleissner 2006 The very logic of IT is itself one of reification: Computers are based on mechanistic logic. Each input produces an exactly determined output.…”

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Towards a critical theory of information

Fuchs

2009

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Critical information theory is an endeavour that focuses ontologically on the analysis of information in the context The logical figure of immanent transcendence is based on the dialectic of essence and existence and poses a viable counterpart to positivistic and postmodern definitions of critique. As an example for the logic of immanent transcendence to critical information theory, a contradiction of the Internet economy is discussed. The debate on redistribution and recognition between critical theorists Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth gives the opportunity to renew the discussion of the relationship of base and superstructure in critical social theory. Critical information theory needs to be aware of economic, political, and cultural demands that it needs to make in struggles for ending domination and oppression, and of the unifying role that the economy and class play in these demands and struggles. Objective and subjective information concepts are based on the underlying worldview of reification. Reification endangers human existence. Information as process and relation enables political and ethical alternatives that have radical implications for society.Keywords: critical theory, information, information society, social theory he basic idea of this contribution is to reflect on how the notion of critical theory could be applied to information studies. What does it mean to study information in a critical way? As an introduction, I will start with a problem in order to show why exactly a critical theory of information is needed.

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Commodification, information, value and profit

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Canadian Dream, Capitalism, and the State: Structural Conditions of Youth Gambling in Canada

Canadian Dream, Capitalism, and the State: Structural Conditions of Youth Gambling in Canada

Big Data y televisión. Una reflexión crítica sobre el auge del Big Data como nuevo paradigma tecno-económico, y su impacto en el concepto de target de audiencia

Towards a critical theory of information

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