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Labour Debates in Studies on Digital Media Platforms: An Evaluation through the Lens of Political Economy

Dijital Medya Platformuİncelemelerinde EmekTartışmaları:Ekonomi Politik Bir Değerlendirme

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133–156
Publication Date
2023-10-16
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This article focuseson the necessity of reconstructing the links between the traditional concepts of political economy andthe new definitions and interpretations emerging from critical orientations in the analysis of digital mediaplatforms.

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Objective & Hypothesis:In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate in the academic literature concerning the users ofdigital media platforms.
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Key Findings & Data:In theirconceptualizations of immaterial or knowledge labour, critical studies argue that users contribute a formof productive labour, a form of “productive consumption,” but in doing so these studies depart significantlyfrom traditional Marxist notions of labour, commodity, production, and consumption.
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Abstract

In recent years, there has been an ongoing debate in the academic literature concerning the users ofdigital media platforms. While mainstream studies seek to identify the needs of users that social mediaplatforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter meet, critical studies seek to study digital mediausers to make sense of and reinterpret Marx’s theory of the labor process in a digital context. In theirconceptualizations of immaterial or knowledge labour, critical studies argue that users contribute a formof productive labour, a form of “productive consumption,” but in doing so these studies depart significantlyfrom traditional Marxist notions of labour, commodity, production, and consumption. This article focuseson the necessity of reconstructing the links between the traditional concepts of political economy andthe new definitions and interpretations emerging from critical orientations in the analysis of digital mediaplatforms.

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Son yıllarda akademik yazında dijital medya platformları kullanıcıları üzerinden süregiden bir tartışma söz konusudur. Anaakım incelemeler Facebook, Instagram, Twitter gibi platformların kullanıcının hangi ihtiyaçlarına cevap verdiği sorusuna yanıt ararken eleştirel incelemeler, Marx’ın emek süreci teorisini kullanıcı üzerinden yeniden okuma ve anlamlandırma çabası içindedir. Maddi olmayan emek ya da bilgi emeği kavramsallaştırmalarında billurlaşan eleştirel incelemeler, kullanıcıyı üretken emek ilan ederek, yani son kertede “üreten tüketim” analizine dönüşerek, Marx’ın meta, emek, üretim ve tüketim üzerine söylediklerinden koparılmaktadır. Bu makale, dijital medya platformu incelemelerinde eleştirel yönelimlerden yükselen tanımlamaların ve yorumların ekonomi politik yaklaşımla bağlarını yeniden inşa etmesinin gerekliliği üzerinde durmaktadır.

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AKSOY, S., SARAÇ, D. Ç. (2023). Labour Debates in Studies on Digital Media Platforms: An Evaluation through the Lens of Political Economy. Ankara Üniversitesi İLEF Dergisi, Cilt: 8 - Sayı: 1, 133–156. https://doi.org/10.24955/ilef.933176

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