He is editor of tripleC: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. Christian Fuchs is a leading critical theorist of communication and society. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. He gave the lecture on February 19 th, 2014, at the University of Westminster.
The video version of the inaugural lecture is available at: He is a Professor at the University of Westminster, co-editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, and the author of Digital Demagogue (Pluto, 2018) and Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2017) amongst other works.Das Netzwerk der Neuen Rechten: Wer sie lenkt, wer sie finanziert und wie sie die Gesellschaft verändernInternet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social MediaInternet and Society: Social Theory in the Information AgeOccupymedia! Fuchs undertakes to do just this, in a book designed to foreground issues of power and ethics in the operations of social media ecologies within contemporary culture (p. 2). Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. He holds a venia docendi in the field of ICTs and society. See if your friends have read any of Christian Fuchs's books of social media without adequately addressing their social and political problematics and com-plexities. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. social media, Internet, public sphere, Jürgen Habermas, political economy, public service media University of Westminster, Communication and Media Research Institute The bold words and broadly glossed-over content beg for flash-card style teaching. Generally, I’m not a big fan of textbooks. Because of this, I always opt for edited volumes and peer-reviewed journal articles, sprinkled with blog posts and popular media clips. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media … Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Welcome back. University of Westminster, Communication and Media Research Institute
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Acknowledgement: This paper is the extended version of Christian Fuchs’ inaugural lecture for his professorship of social media at the University of Westminster that he took up on February 1 st, 2013. Christian Fuchs, By Christian Fuchs CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Christian Fuchs is the author of Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter, an analytical intervention into Trumpology, Twitter and authoritarianism, and the free e-book Nationalism 2.0, a study into the way that social media deepened … : The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis CapitalismCritical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the InternetGeheimer Krieg: Wie von Deutschland aus der Kampf gegen den Terror gesteuert wird Christian Fuchs is professor at the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute.