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…
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…
This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and presents case studies of how fascism is communicated online. Each chapter focuses on a particular dimension of digital fascism or a…
The conference of KriKoWi which was postponed to this year opens its registration. Participation is restricted. Registration deadline is 15 April.
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The European Sociological Association (ESA) – Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research announces its mid-term conference 2022 at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, 1-3 September 2022, in co-operation with the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies…
As announced, the plans are still to have that conference in a face-to-face format at the Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) from 18 to 20 November 2021. Click here for the programme. More information here.…
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