1st Edition
Critique, Social Media and the Information Society
1. Introduction: Critique, Social Media and the Information Society in the Age of Capitalist Crisis Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval Part I: Critical Studies of the Information Society 2. Critique of the Political Economy of Informational Capitalism and Social Media Christian Fuchs 3. Potentials and Risks for Creating a Global Sustainable Information Society Wolfgang Hofkirchner 4. Critical Studies of Contemporary Informational Capitalism: The Perspective of Emerging Scholars Sebastian Sevignani, Robert Prey, Marisol Sandoval, Thomas Allmer, Jernej Amon Prodnik and Verena Kreilinger 5. Social Informatics and Ethics: Towards the Good Information and Communication Society Gunilla Bradley Part II: Critical Internet- and Social Media-Studies 6. Great Refusal or Long March: How to Think About the Internet Andrew Feenberg 7. Producing Consumerism: Commodities, Ideologies, Practices Graham Murdock 8. Social Media?: The Unsocial Character of Capitalist Media Marisol Sandoval 9. The Global Worker and the Digital Front Nick Dyer-Witheford 10. Alienation’s Returns Mark Andrejevic 11. Social Media and Political Participation: Discourse and Deflection Peter Dahlgren 12. "The Architecture of Participation": For Citizens or Consumers? Tobias Olsson Part III: Critical Studies of Communication Labour 13. Precarious Times, Precarious Work: A Feminist Political Economy of Freelance Journalists in Canada and the United States Catherine McKercher 14. Flight as Fight: Re-Negotiating the Work of Journalism Margareta Melin 15. Marx is Back, But Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite?: On the Critical Study of Labour, Media and Communication Today Vincent Mosco
Biography
Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media Research at the University of Westminster’s Communication and Media Research Institute.
Marisol Sandoval is a Lecturer in Culture, Policy and Management at City University, London.