From September 11th to 15th 2023, the Political Economies of the Media summer school was held at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik, jointly organised by the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) and the University of Ljubljana. The…
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The Critical Communication Studies Network announces its next conference. It is on the topic of solidarity: Call for Papers5th Conference of the Critical Communication Studies NetworkSeptember 19–21, 2024Paderborn University
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Christian Fuchs hat ein Lehrbuch auf Deutsch verfasst. He wrote a textbook in English: Christian Fuchs. 2023. Grundlagen der Medienökonomie: Medien, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. München: UVK/utbChristian Fuchs. 2024. Media, Economy and Society: A Critical Introduction. Abingdon: Routledge. Das Buch führt…
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The proceedings of the 2022 conference of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft on Property, Media, and the Public Sphere, hosted by GSIS, have been published now with Westend Academics. The book is co-edited by Hendrik Theine, also researcher at GSIS, and…
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Call for Applications: Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, an advanced postgraduate course. Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 11 – 15 September 2023 Keynote Speakers: Christian Fuchs, Paderborn University, GermanyKylie Jarrett, Maynooth University, Ireland Course Directors: Thomas Allmer,…
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This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society series presents an approach to critical digital ethics. It develops foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of…
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A new book by Christian Fuchs, now Paderborn University, Germany. The publisher, Emerald, announces: Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth culture, the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, COVID-19 conspiracy theories,…
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The Communication, Capitalism and Critique ESA RN-18 mid-term conference 2022 took place at the Polytechnic of Turin from 1-3 September (conference website: https://rn18esa.wordpress.com). The event was co-organised by the European Sociological Association – Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media…
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2.5 days (from 12-14-5-2022), over 100 participants, 2 keynotes, 3 panel discussions and 44 lectures and workshops at the conference “Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit” (Property, Media, and the Public Sphere) of the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (Critical Communication Studies Network) at WU…
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The Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, Leipzig, invites to a podium with Sebastian Sevignani on 31 March 2022, 18:00. They write: Die algorithmische Zukunft der Medien – Wie digitale Medien und Algorithmen die Öffentlichkeit neu gestaltenIn dieser Podiumsdiskussion wollen wir der Frage…
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