From chema at rinzewind.org  Sun Dec  8 23:16:51 2019
From: chema at rinzewind.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Mar=EDa?= Mateos)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 17:16:51 -0500
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/246279/gallery/ekathimerini/special-report/inside-facebooks-moderation-hub-in-athens

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For months, Tassos was banned from speaking about his job in the 
southern Athens suburb of Moschato. His task was determining whether 
content put up on Facebook should be removed. In the few seconds until 
the next post would pop up on his screen, he would feel his chest 
tightening. If he had the slightest doubt about his judgment, he had to 
consult an online rulebook indicating the crudest violations of 
community standards. There, he would encounter imagery of hard-core porn 
and animal torture. ?I can still recall a picture depicting two little 
dogs that were hung from their front feet,? Tassos told Kathimerini. But 
the line between inappropriate content and censorship was not always 
clear to him. ?The guidelines set by Facebook were nebulous and the 
phrasing was sloppy. We often did not know whether we were making the 
right call,? he said.

Tassos was one of the hundreds of Teleperformance employees that work in 
Athens as content moderators for Facebook. These people determine what 
is inappropriate or misleading and needs to be deleted from the 
platform. Unlike so-called ?cleaners? in other parts of the world, the 
Athens-based staff do not moderate controversial content shared by users 
on Facebook as personal posts, but only ads. During training, Tassos was 
told that, besides Greece, Facebook ran two more Business Integrity 
teams, in Portugal and Malaysia.
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Cheers,

-- 
Jos? Mar?a (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/



From christian.fuchs at uti.at  Mon Dec 16 13:59:29 2019
From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:59:29 +0100
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Christian Fuchs. 2020. Marxism: Karl Marx?s Fifteen Key Concepts for 
Cultural & Communication Studies. New York: Routledge. 296 pages.

http://fuchs.uti.at/books/marxism-karl-marxs-fifteen-key-concepts-for-cultural-communication-studies-new-york-routledge/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5dsG-Na7FY

This book is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl 
Marx?s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies.

Karl Marx?s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this book, 
Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his 
key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital 
and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first 
century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, 
materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, 
the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general 
intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles.

Table of Contents:
1 Introduction 1
2 The Dialectic 4
3 Materialism: The Base/Superstructure Problem 19
4 Commodities, Capital, Capitalism 38
5 Labour and Surplus-Value 77
6 The Working Class 105
7 Alienation 127
8 Means of Communication and the General Intellect 147
9 Ideology 178
10 Socialism and Communism 205
11 Class Struggles 247
Index 280