Given that the information society and the study of information face a world of crisis today and are at a crossroads, also the future of the Internet and social media are in question. The 5th ICTs and Society Conference therefore wants to focus on the questions: What are the main challenges that the Internet and social media are facing in capitalism today? What potentials for an alternative, commonist Internet are there? What are existing hindrances for such an Internet? What is the relationship of power structures, protest movements, societal developments, struggles, radical reforms, etc. to the Internet? How can critical political economy and critical theory best study the Internet and social media today?
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.
christian fuchs, November 21st 2014
Tags: capitalism, commonism, conference 2014, critical political economy, critical theory, crossroads, ICTs and society, Internet, Karl Marx, social mediaPosted in Uncategorized
Collected volume “Critique, Social Media & the Information Society†(ed. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval)
Critique, Social Media & the Information Society
Edited by Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval
Routledge
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415841856/
The critical guide to social media and the information society in turbulent times!
christian fuchs, April 29th 2013
Tags: capitalism, critique, ICTs and society, ICTs and Society conference, information society, social mediaPosted in Uncategorized
ESA Social Theory Conference on Transdisciplinarity in Innsbruck
The Social Theory Research Network is one of 31 research networks of the European Sociological Association. It has approximately 200 active members. Whereas the other research networks’ task is to deal with specialized subfields of sociology, the mission of the Social Theory Network is to develop “concepts of orientation and outlining what can be called ‘conditional [...]
christian fuchs, September 14th 2008
Tags: 2008, conference, critical social theory, critical theory, ESA, European Sociological Theory, ICTs and society, information society, Innsbruck, Internet, network society, new media & society, September 11-13 2008, social theory, Social Theory and the Sociological Discipline(s), Social Theory Research Network, sociological theory, transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinePosted in Net Politics