About me
Last modified: July 9, 2018Christian Fuchs
Professor
University of Westminster
Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
http://fuchs.uti.at
I am professor at the University of Westminster, where I am the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) and the Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies. I am also editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society that specializes in publishing articles about critical studies of media & society, the political economy of communication, the political economy of the icInternet and social media, critical information society studies, and critical studies of digital media/the Internet & society. We welcome the submission of articles that fit the journal’s scope.
I occassionally write in the Huffington Post, Medium.com and have a video channel on Vimeo. You can follow both if you are interested in articles and talks about society, media, culture, politics, the Internet.
From 2015-2017, I was a member of the European Sociological Association‘s Executive Board. You can become an ESA member or renew your existing membership here. ESA organises a large bi-annual sociology conference. From 2011-2015, I was chair of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 (RN18) – Sociology of Media and Communications Research that organizes an annual conference. I am member of RN18′s board. You can become a member of ESA and RN18 here. ESA RN18 has a mailing list, to which you can subscribe here . You can also follow ESA RN 18 on Facebook.
I am co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network, an international interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in digital media & society that has various activities. You can subscribe to the ICTs and Society-mailing list here.
From 2012-2016, I was Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action “Dynamics of Virtual Work” (2012-2016) that studied unpaid and paid forms of digital labour.
Research Interests: social theory, critical theory, critique of the political economy of media, communication, information, technology, culture; Internet & society, information society studies, media & society, ICTs & society, social media & society
Vimeo channel
Medium.com blog
NetPoliticsBlog
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