Christian Fuchs (sociologist)

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Christian Fuchs is an Austrian social scientist. Fuchs, is currently Professor of Media, Communication & Society at the University of Westminster, where he is the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He also known for being the editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communications, Capitalism & Critique.[1] The journal's website offers a wide range of critical studies within the debate of capitalism and communication. This academic open access journal publishes new articles, special issues, calls for papers, reviews, reflections, information on conferences and events, and other journal specific information. Fuchs is also the co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network which is a worldwide interdisciplinary network of researchers who study how society and digital media interact.

Fuchs has been influential in the study of modern day social media. He himself uses YouTube and Vimeo to present analyses of the Internet and society. He also uses the social media platform Twitter, where he presents ideas on society, media, culture, politics and the internet.

From 2015 until 2017, Christian Fuchs was a member European Sociologists Association’s[2] executive board, where he played a key role in organising the 2017 ESA conference in Athens. ESA is an academic sociological association. Its conferences take place bi-annually.

Fuchs' fields of expertise are social theory, critical theory, critical digital and social media research, Internet & society, the political economy of media and communications, information society theory.[3]

In his book "Social Media - A critical introduction" from 2014 he expressed criticism towards media scholar Henry Jenkins and his book Convergence Culture from 2007 in which Jenkins explores participation in culture. Fuchs criticises Jenkins for excluding factors such as power and equality and stating that Jenkins is a "cultural reductionist".[4]

Books (Monographs)[]

  • Internet and Society. Social Theory in the Information Age (Routledge, 2008) ISBN 978-0-203-93777-8
  • Practical Civil Virtues in Cyberspace: Towards the Utopian Identity of Civitas and Multitudo (Shaker, 2009) ISBN 978-3832283414 (co-author Rainer E. Zimmermann)
  • Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies (Routledge, 2011) ISBN 978-0-415-58881-2
  • Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Routledge 2014) ISBN 0-745-33999-9
  • Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage 2014, first edition) ISBN 978-1-473-96683-3
  • OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism (Zero Books, 2014) ISBN 978-1-78279-405-9
  • Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media (Routledge, 2015) ISBN 978-1-138-83931-1
  • Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1 (Routledge 2016) ISBN 978-1-138-94855-6
  • Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet (University of Westminster Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1-911-53404-4
  • Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage 2017, second edition) ISBN 9781473966826
  • The Online Advertising Tax as the Foundation of a Public Service Internet (University of Westminster Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1-911534-93-8
  • Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter (Pluto Press, 2018) ISBN 0-745-33796-1
  • Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2019) ISBN 0745339999, 978-0745339993
  • Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News (Routledge, 2020) ISBN 978-0-367-35766-5
  • Marxism: Karl Marx’s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies (Routledge, 2020) ISBN 978-0-367-41877-9
  • Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (University of Westminster Press, 2020) ISBN 978-1-912656-71-4
  • Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory. Media, Communication and Society Volume One (Routledge, 2021) ISBN 9780367697129
  • Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2021, third edition) ISBN 978-1-5297-5274-8
  • Foundations of Critical Theory. Media, Communication and Society Volume Two (Routledge, 2021) ISBN 9781032057897
  • Communicating COVID-19. Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times. SocietyNow Series (Emerald, 2021) ISBN 9781801177238

Edited Books and Collected Volumes[]

  • Christian Fuchs, ed. 2021. Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 19 (1): 1-194. Published open access: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v19i1.1233
  • Christian Fuchs, ed. 2020. Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (1): 1-285. Published open access: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1149
  • Christian Fuchs and Lara Monticelli, eds. 2018. Karl Marx @ 200. Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16 (2): 406-741. Published open access: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1040
  • David Chandler and Christian Fuchs, eds. Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data (University of Westminster Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1-912656-20-2
  • Jack Qiu and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2018. Ferments in the Field: The Past, Present and Future of Communication Studies (Special issue). Journal of Communication 68 (2): 219-451.
  • Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2016. Marx and the Political Economy of the Media. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 79. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-29140-9 (Paperback: 2017. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, ISBN 9781608467082).
  • Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2016. Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 80. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-29138-6 (Paperback 2017. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, ISBN 9781608467099).
  • Eran Fisher and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2015. Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781349570775
  • Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani and Thomas Allmer, eds. 2014. Special Issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work - Definitions, Dimensions and Forms. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (2): 464-801. Published open access: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v12i2.631
  • Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval, eds. 2014. Critique, Social Media and the Information Society. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415721080
  • Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2014. Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415749091
  • Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (2): 127-632. Published open access: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.427
  • Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval, eds. 2012. Internet and Surveillance. The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415633642
  • Fuchs, Christian and Göran Bolin, eds. 2012. Critical Theory and Political Economy of the Internet @ Nordmedia 2011. tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (1): 30-91. Published open access: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/24
  • Margit Appel, Ronald Blaschke, Christian Fuchs, Manfred Füllsack and Luise Gubitzer, eds. 2006. Grundeinkommen – In Freiheit tätig sein (Guaranteed Basic Income – Activity in Freedom). Berlin: Avinus. ISBN 3-930064-73-1
  • Vladimir Arshinov and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2003. Causality, Emergence, Self-Organisation. Moscow: NIA-Priroda. ISBN 5-9562-0006-5
  • Christiane Floyd, Christian Fuchs, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, eds. 2002. Stufen zur Informationsgesellschaft. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (Steps Towards the Information Society: Festschrift for Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday). Vienna: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3631376423

Articles[]

  • Christian Fuchs et Sebastian Sevignani, TripleC, vol. 11, no 2, 2013, p. 237–29[5]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/
  2. ^ https://www.europeansociology.org/
  3. ^ "Christian Fuchs". The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-11-28.
  4. ^ Fuchs, Christian. Social media: a critical introduction (2nd ed.). Los Angeles. ISBN 1-4739-6682-5. OCLC 951226822.
  5. ^ "What is Digital Labour? What is Digital Work? What's their Difference? And why do these Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media?". Retrieved 12 August 2008.
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