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Tag clouds of the ICA and IAMCR 2013 conference programmes
Tag clouds of the ICA and IAMCR 2013 conference programmes Created by Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian with Wordle, CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO SEE LARGER VERSIONS The ICA 2013 programme as tag cloud: The...
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Do you love the new iPhone 5s/5c? Its production is not a labour of love… Why...
Do you love the new iPhone 5s/5c? Its production is not a labour of love… Why it is time for alternatives to Apple and the iPhone. By Christian Fuchs Apple sold 9 million iPhones 5s and 5c in the days...
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“Castells and Jenkins: … these approaches are terribly flawed”: An interview...
“CASTELLS AND JENKINS: … THESE APPROACHES ARE TERRIBLY FLAWED”: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTIAN FUCHS Conducted by Pasko Bilic First published on the Sociologija Media Blog An interview covering topics...
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Inauguration Lecture: Social Media and the Public Sphere
Christian Fuchs: Social Media and the Public Sphere Inauguration lecture February, 19, 2014. 18:00-21:00 University of Westminster. London W1B 2HW 309 Regent Street The Old Cinema Register here Social...
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(Un-)Freedom in the Age of Social Media
(Un-)Freedom in the Age of Social Media Christian Fuchs By Fekner (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons] Immanuel Kant defined the liberal concept of freedom in the context of the autonomy of...
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Conference Freedom of Information under Pressure: Control – Crisis – Culture
Conference Freedom of Information under Pressure: Control – Crisis – Culture Vienna, Austria. February 28-March 1, 2014 http://freedom-of-information.info Register:...
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The (Un-)Freedom of Information under Capitalism
The (Un-)Freedom of Information under Capitalism On February 28 and March 1, 2014, around 200 scholars, activists, journalists, lawyers, librarians, media practitioners, experts of open culture and...
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The 25th Anniversary of the WWW: Transition to Socialism or Regression into...
The 25th Anniversary of the WWW: Transition to Socialism or Regression into Barbarism? Christian Fuchs By Svilen.milev (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0...
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9 movies about social media research-books
9 movies about social media research books Students in the University of Westminster’s MA in Social Media have as part of my module “Critical Theory of Social Media and the Internet” directed movies...
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Lawrence & Wishart vs. The Marxists Internet Archive: The Blindness of the...
Lawrence & Wishart vs. The Marxists Internet Archive: The Blindness of the Copyright Left Christian Fuchs The publisher Lawrence & Wishart (L&W) has issued a takedown notice to the...
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E-democracy workshop in the UK Parliament
E-DEMOCRACY WORKSHOP IN THE UK PARLIAMENT On 19 May, scholars from the University of Westminster’s Centre for Social Media Research (CSMR) in the Faculty of Media, Arts & Design and the Centre for...
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Christian Fuchs: The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age...
Video of “The Digital Labour Theory of Value and Karl Marx in the Age of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Weibo” Christian Fuchs Talk at the COST Action “Dynamic of Virtual Work”‘s Workshop “The Labour...
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Shopping with Marx and Spencer
Shopping with Marx and Spencer Christian Fuchs Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) not only have in common that they were 19th century contemporaries and philosophers. They are also...
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Social Media and the Islamic State’s Killing of James Foley: Why It Is Time...
Social Media and the Islamic State’s Killing of James Foley: Why It Is Time the West Shifts Public Attenstion towards the Kurdish Internet-Sphere. Christian Fuchs A Turkish translation has been...
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tripleC Special issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital...
tripleC Special issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work – Definitions, Dimensions and Forms Edited by Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik,...
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Win a copy of Christian Fuchs’ new book “OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and...
Win a copy of Christian Fuchs’ new book “OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism” You can win one of 20 copies of Christian Fuchs’ new book...
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Capitalist and Commonist Social Media
Capitalist and Commonist Social Media What’s wrong with capitalism and capitalist social media such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, etc. ? How would a commonist social media world look like? With...
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5th ICTs and Society Conference 2015: The Internet and Social Media at a...
The 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory....
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Call: RN18 Panel “Critical Media Sociology Today” at the ESA 2015 Conference
Call: RN18 Panel “Critical Media Sociology Today” 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association August 25-28, 2015. Prague ESA Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media...
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The Role of Internet Politics in the 2015 British Election Manifestos
The Role of Internet Politics in the 2015 British Election Manifestos Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian General elections will take place in Britain on May 7, 2015. Whereas the role of digital and social...
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