Marxist Theories of Digital Communication

Question 1

Garside

Answer 1

Adults also now spend excessive amounts of time online, to the extent that the balance between sleep and screen-based activities has now tipped

Question 2

How long does the typical adult spend consuming media? (Garside)

Answer 2

The typical adult spends eight hours and 41 minutes each day communicating or consuming media, including books and newspapers, and just eight hours and 21 minutes asleep

Question 3

Cornford and Robbins

Answer 3

Argue that digital communication is simply a way of capitalism controlling people more subtly through their use of various social media under the excuse of protecting people from extremism or criminal acts

Question 4

What did Cornford and Robbins say?

Answer 4

‘The continuation of power being concentrated in the hands of a few’: Cornford and Robins (1999):

Question 5

How is digital communication presented? (Cornford and Robbins)

Answer 5

Cornford and Robins argue that the digital communication is presented to the public as a positive new form of democratic, where open communication can lead to greater equality in the creation and spread of new ideas