Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2015
DOI
10.5210/spir.v5i0.8567
Publication Title
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
Pages
13 pp.
Conference Name
16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Phoenix, AZ, USA
Abstract
The internet has increasingly been conceptualized as a space of economic activity. This contemporary imaginary has been particularly influenced by insights from the school of Autonomist Marxism in the foundational work of Tiziana Terranova and through the dominance of Christian Fuchs’ application of Marxist economic concepts. While this has generated great insight into the political economy of the internet, and in particular allowed for the conceptualization of user activity as labor, this approach is only one paradigm for considering the economic activities and implications of the internet. For internet research, there is also the need to move beyond the long schism between political economy and cultural studies as we try to understand user activity that is socially and affectively rich, but emerges from commercial contexts. This series of panels proposes to expand the exploration of the internet as an economic construct in a number of directions. It pluralizes the definition of “economy”, expanding it from the strictly fiscal to include other economies such as the moral, (sub-) cultural, affective, queer, or libidinal (to name merely a few). Various papers propose different economic models for understanding the interactions within and between these various economies. They also expand the range of actors and economic contexts associated with the internet, drawing attention to the intersections of race and gender in particular. The goal of these papers across the various sessions is to expand our imaginary of the internet economy.
ORCID
0000-0001-6295-6620 (Graham)
Original Publication Citation
Jarrett, K., Velkova, J., Jakobsson, P., Graham, R., & Gehring, D. (2015). Economies of the Internet I: Intersections. Paper presented at Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Phoenix, AZ, USA: AoIR. Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org.
Repository Citation
Jarrett, Kylie; Velkova, Julia; Jakobsson, Peter; Graham, Roderick; and Gehring, David, "Economies of the Internet I: Intersections" (2015). Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 44.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sociology_criminaljustice_fac_pubs/44
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