Critical, Digital and Social Media – serie
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18 produkter
Critical Theory of Communication
New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
Häftad, 2016
322 kr
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This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for …
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism
An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism
Häftad, 2017
367 kr
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Author Mariano Zukerfeld was awarded the best book prize by The Association ESOCITE (Asociación Latinamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Cience y la Tecnología). “the book is a refreshing, dynamic approach leading back into discussions which have been neglected during the last 20 years.” …
Capital, State, Empire
The New American Way of Digital Warfare
Av Scott Timcke
Häftad, 2017
347 kr
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The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies.Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this …
Politicizing Digital Space
Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy
Häftad, 2017
322 kr
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The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, …
Big Data Agenda
Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies
Inbunden, 2018
883 kr
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This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data …
Peer to Peer
The Commons Manifesto
Av Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
247 kr
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Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is …
Big Data Agenda
Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies
Häftad, 2018
322 kr
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This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data …
Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism
Häftad, 2018
388 kr
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After President Trump’s election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, much public discussion has intensely focused on populism and authoritarianism. In the middle of the twentieth century, members of the early Frankfurt School prolifically studied and theorized fascism …
Cultural Crowdfunding
Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization
Häftad, 2019
349 kr
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This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. …
Communication and Capitalism
A Critical Theory
Häftad, 2020
489 kr
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‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ — Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, …
Intellectual Commons and the Law
A Normative Theory for Commons-Based Peer Production
Häftad, 2020
395 kr
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‘With clarity and sophistication, Antonios Broumas presents a bold new theory of intellectual commons and powerful arguments for a new body of supportive law. This book not only reveals the misleading logic of intellectual property law in our time; it reveals the rich possibilities for constructive …
Fight Against Platform Capitalism
An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy
Av Jamie Woodcock, Jamie Woodcock
Häftad, 2021
338 kr
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“The book rewards readers with interesting first-hand accounts of protests and pickets that are typically absent from academic discussions of the digital economy.” - …
Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities
Av Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
951 kr
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Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms? How do multiple self-quantifying practices interact with questions of class, race and gender? This edited collection considers …
Society of the Selfie
Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy
Av Jeremiah Morelock, Felipe Ziotti Narita
Häftad, 2021
428 kr
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This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through …
Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement
In Search of the Opt-Out Button
Av Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake
Häftad, 2022
398 kr
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Listen to authors Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake discuss collective data justice, the rights, refusals and ethics of digital (dis)engagement in this latest podcast from Lateral, the Journal of the Cultural Studies …
Digital and Social Media in Africa
Av Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, Henri-Count Evans m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
301 kr
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This book provides case studies on the strategies used by African governments in monitoring and controlling digital and social media, as well as the implications of such actions for claims about media freedom and freedom of expression.Further, the book examines the human rights challenges posed by …
Left and Digital Politics
Political Parties from Platform Neoliberalism to Platform Socialism
Häftad, 2025
337 kr
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Digital platforms are more than devices, algorithms and websites. They organise societies through the leadership of platform capitalists and their allies in political institutions. We know that this leadership, or hegemony, fosters exploitation and inequalities. We also know that a politics of …
Critique of the Political Economy of the Media
Foundations and Applications
Häftad, 2025
391 kr
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Critique of the Political Economy of the Media is an approach to the critical analysis of the media’s role in contemporary society. It is based on Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism, using a combination of critical social theory and empirical social research for studying what role the media has in …
