Vincent Manzerolle
Biographic Data
| ID | 4911150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Manzerolle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Manzerolle |
| SIGNATURE | MANZEROLLE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6652-3179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Friction-free authenticity
This paper contextualizes and critically examines the incorporation of transactional features into two popular mobile social media apps: Instagram and Snapchat. It examines how mobile social media acts as an interface between culture and commerce. We situate this interface within a larger political economic context in which tech companies are embracing ‘fintech’ to drive growth. We argue that mobile social media platforms play a unique role in mo…
Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album r…
On the transactional ecosystems of digital media
This article contributes a framework for understanding the convergence of two ‘transactional ecosystems’ or, put differently, the convergence of two types of currency: money and attention. The former is represented in the push to make commercial transactions ubiquitous and seamless (e.g. as in mobile payment systems), while the latter is represented by theories of the ‘attention economy’ and subsumed in the ‘attention and engagement’ metrics that…
App-centric mobile media and commoditization
This paper traces linkages between the commoditization of the Web and what we call “app-centric media.” By this we mean a media environment composed of a multitude of discrete-but-connected software applications and their associated protocols, platforms, frameworks, and institutions. The rapid growth of app-centric media, we argue, is directly dependent on the development and commercialization of the (mobile) Internet, as well as on the business …
Dare et Capere
In Miller, P. D. and Matviyenko, S. (Eds.) (2014). The Imaginary App. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 143-162.
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age
The audience commodity in a digital age
Contents: Lee McGuigan: After Broadcast, What? An Introduction to the Legacy of Dallas Smythe - William H. Melody: Audiences, Commodities and Market Relations: An Introduction to the Audience Commodity Thesis - Dallas W. Smythe: Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism - Graham Murdock: Introduction to The Blindspot Revisited - Graham Murdock: Blindspots About Western Marxism: A Reply to Dallas Smythe - Eileen R. Meehan: Introduction to and t…
All the world’s a shopping cart”
Ubiquitous connectivity to networked information-communication technologies increasingly mediates social experiences of markets and retail environments. These conditions lead some marketing scholars to conclude that digital media are reaching their inevitable culmination: an omnipresent marketplace. They call this “ubiquitous commerce” (u-commerce). U-commerce annihilates constraints over markets; borders, cultural differences, and geography ceas…
Media Convergence
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Media Convergence: The Three Degrees of Network, Mass and Interpersonal Communication (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), 195 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-48204-2 (pbk), US$42.95. Co
The Communication of Capital
This paper argues that questions concerning the circulation of capital are central to the study of contemporary and future media under capitalism. Moreover, it argues that such questions have been central to Marx’s analysis of the reproduction of capital vis-à-vis the realization of value and the reduction of circulation time. Marx’s concepts of both the circuit and circulation of capital implies a theory of communication. Thus the purpose of our…
The Wireless Spectrum
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
The Virtual Debt Factory
Emanating from the United States, the ongoing global credit crisis has provided important insights into a shady new area of capitalist exploitation: the consumer debt factory. In an effort to speed up and quantifiably increase the circulation of consumer credit to match the consumption needs of post-Fordist accumulation, this industry—comprising financial institutions, consumer database companies, and credit rating agencies—has created a highly d…
Consumer Databases, Neoliberalism, and the Commercial Mediation of Identity
This paper argues that the systemic nature of contemporary consumer surveillance undermines the most fundamental principle of free market economics: consumer sovereignty. Specifically, this paper argues that the rise of an ‘information’ or ‘knowledge’ society in conjunction with neoliberal capitalism has entrenched routine forms of surveillance within commercial strategies by employing networked databases as a primary medium for the articulation …
Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album r…
All the world’s a shopping cart”
Ubiquitous connectivity to networked information-communication technologies increasingly mediates social experiences of markets and retail environments. These conditions lead some marketing scholars to conclude that digital media are reaching their inevitable culmination: an omnipresent marketplace. They call this “ubiquitous commerce” (u-commerce). U-commerce annihilates constraints over markets; borders, cultural differences, and geography ceas…
Friction-free authenticity
This paper contextualizes and critically examines the incorporation of transactional features into two popular mobile social media apps: Instagram and Snapchat. It examines how mobile social media acts as an interface between culture and commerce. We situate this interface within a larger political economic context in which tech companies are embracing ‘fintech’ to drive growth. We argue that mobile social media platforms play a unique role in mo…
App-centric mobile media and commoditization
This paper traces linkages between the commoditization of the Web and what we call “app-centric media.” By this we mean a media environment composed of a multitude of discrete-but-connected software applications and their associated protocols, platforms, frameworks, and institutions. The rapid growth of app-centric media, we argue, is directly dependent on the development and commercialization of the (mobile) Internet, as well as on the business …
Consumer Databases, Neoliberalism, and the Commercial Mediation of Identity
This paper argues that the systemic nature of contemporary consumer surveillance undermines the most fundamental principle of free market economics: consumer sovereignty. Specifically, this paper argues that the rise of an ‘information’ or ‘knowledge’ society in conjunction with neoliberal capitalism has entrenched routine forms of surveillance within commercial strategies by employing networked databases as a primary medium for the articulation …
On the transactional ecosystems of digital media
This article contributes a framework for understanding the convergence of two ‘transactional ecosystems’ or, put differently, the convergence of two types of currency: money and attention. The former is represented in the push to make commercial transactions ubiquitous and seamless (e.g. as in mobile payment systems), while the latter is represented by theories of the ‘attention economy’ and subsumed in the ‘attention and engagement’ metrics that…
The Wireless Spectrum
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
The Virtual Debt Factory
Emanating from the United States, the ongoing global credit crisis has provided important insights into a shady new area of capitalist exploitation: the consumer debt factory. In an effort to speed up and quantifiably increase the circulation of consumer credit to match the consumption needs of post-Fordist accumulation, this industry—comprising financial institutions, consumer database companies, and credit rating agencies—has created a highly d…
Consumer Databases, Neoliberalism, and the Commercial Mediation of Identity
This paper argues that the systemic nature of contemporary consumer surveillance undermines the most fundamental principle of free market economics: consumer sovereignty. Specifically, this paper argues that the rise of an ‘information’ or ‘knowledge’ society in conjunction with neoliberal capitalism has entrenched routine forms of surveillance within commercial strategies by employing networked databases as a primary medium for the articulation …
The Wireless Spectrum
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
The Communication of Capital
This paper argues that questions concerning the circulation of capital are central to the study of contemporary and future media under capitalism. Moreover, it argues that such questions have been central to Marx’s analysis of the reproduction of capital vis-à-vis the realization of value and the reduction of circulation time. Marx’s concepts of both the circuit and circulation of capital implies a theory of communication. Thus the purpose of our…
Media Convergence
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Media Convergence: The Three Degrees of Network, Mass and Interpersonal Communication (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), 195 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-48204-2 (pbk), US$42.95. Co
Dare et Capere
In Miller, P. D. and Matviyenko, S. (Eds.) (2014). The Imaginary App. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 143-162.
The Audience Commodity in a Digital Age
The audience commodity in a digital age
Contents: Lee McGuigan: After Broadcast, What? An Introduction to the Legacy of Dallas Smythe - William H. Melody: Audiences, Commodities and Market Relations: An Introduction to the Audience Commodity Thesis - Dallas W. Smythe: Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism - Graham Murdock: Introduction to The Blindspot Revisited - Graham Murdock: Blindspots About Western Marxism: A Reply to Dallas Smythe - Eileen R. Meehan: Introduction to and t…
All the world’s a shopping cart”
Ubiquitous connectivity to networked information-communication technologies increasingly mediates social experiences of markets and retail environments. These conditions lead some marketing scholars to conclude that digital media are reaching their inevitable culmination: an omnipresent marketplace. They call this “ubiquitous commerce” (u-commerce). U-commerce annihilates constraints over markets; borders, cultural differences, and geography ceas…
App-centric mobile media and commoditization
This paper traces linkages between the commoditization of the Web and what we call “app-centric media.” By this we mean a media environment composed of a multitude of discrete-but-connected software applications and their associated protocols, platforms, frameworks, and institutions. The rapid growth of app-centric media, we argue, is directly dependent on the development and commercialization of the (mobile) Internet, as well as on the business …
On the transactional ecosystems of digital media
This article contributes a framework for understanding the convergence of two ‘transactional ecosystems’ or, put differently, the convergence of two types of currency: money and attention. The former is represented in the push to make commercial transactions ubiquitous and seamless (e.g. as in mobile payment systems), while the latter is represented by theories of the ‘attention economy’ and subsumed in the ‘attention and engagement’ metrics that…
Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album r…
Friction-free authenticity
This paper contextualizes and critically examines the incorporation of transactional features into two popular mobile social media apps: Instagram and Snapchat. It examines how mobile social media acts as an interface between culture and commerce. We situate this interface within a larger political economic context in which tech companies are embracing ‘fintech’ to drive growth. We argue that mobile social media platforms play a unique role in mo…
Computer Science (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Capitalism (3 works)