The current political and ideological situation in Europe precisely resembles the situation that Hall described for the 1970s. The objects of contemporary moral panics in the crisis, the contemporary ideological demons and ideological devils are immigrants, the unemployed, Southern Europeans and the European Union. Crisis ideologies displace the causes of the crisis of capitalism into particularism. Ideology is policing the crisis today: it aims at installing an even more brutal capitalist system and making people believe that this is necessary and will help overcome and avoid future crisis. The opposite is true: The cause of the crisis is prescribed as its solution, which can only result in even worse crises in the future if these politics and ideologies are successfully implemented.
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- Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media
- Digital Labour and Karl Marx
- Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
- Internet & Society
- Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media
- Marx and the Political Economy of the Media
- Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
- Marx is back
- OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism
- Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1
- Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age
- Social Media, Politics and the State
- Social Media: A Critical Introduction
- Critique, Social Media and the Information Society
- Social Networking Sites Study
- Practical Civil Virtues in Cyberspace: Towards the Utopian Identity of Civitas and Multitudo.
- Herbert Marcuse interkulturell gelesen
- Emanzipation! Technik und Politik bei Herbert Marcuse.
- Studienbuch Informatik und Gesellschaft
- Causality, Emergence, Self-Organisation
- Krise und Kritik in der Informationsgesellschaft
- Soziale Selbstorganisation im informationsgesellschaftlichen Kapitalismus
- Stufen zur Informationsgesellschaft
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- 0.5 FTE Postdoc Research Fellow: Political Economy of the Internet
- The Trade Union Bill and Social Media
- 13 Short Films about Social Media
- The Role of Internet Politics in the 2015 British Election Manifestos
- Call: RN18 Panel “Critical Media Sociology Today” at the ESA 2015 Conference
- 5th ICTs and Society Conference 2015: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory.
- Capitalist and Commonist Social Media
- Win a copy of Christian Fuchs’ new book “OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism”
- Westminister Institute 4 Advanced Studies seeks to hire executive assistant Deadline July 1 https://t.co/07O9POJz2T https://t.co/4OQNsKuxBg
- Futurezone-Interview "Ein europäisches Facebook wird es nie geben“ https://t.co/cGixEqmuKT
- #bpw16 #bpw2016 #bpwahl16 https://t.co/sAu9asFFYh
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