Christian Fuchs: Prolegomena to the study of media and communication in the information society. Inauguration lecture for the chair in media and communication studies at Uppsala University.

Christian Fuchs: Prolegomena to the study of media and communication in the information society. Inauguration lecture for the chair in media and communication studies. Uppsala University, Sweden, November 18, 2010. Powerpoint presentation (Download) Christian Fuchs: Prolegomena to the study of media and communication in the information society. Inauguration lecture, Uppsala U from ABC on Vimeo. [...]

Uppsala University: PhD Student Position in Critical Media/Internet Studies

Uppsala University hereby declares the following position to be open for application:
PhD position in Media and Communication Studies
at the Department of Informatics and Media as of January 1st, 2011.

The candidate is supposed to participate in the department’s ongoing research in the field of web 2.0/social media/social networking sites & economic online surveillance/Internet prosumer labour. Therefore applicants with a solid background in the combination of the following areas are solicited to apply: critical media and communication studies, Critical Theory, critical political economy, critical political economy of media, ICTs and communication; Internet studies, surveillance and privacy studies, critical advertising and consumer culture studies.