Christian Fuchs

Christian Fuchs

Professor
University of Westminster
Co-Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)
http://fuchs.uti.at

I am professor at the University of Westminster, where I am the Co-Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) . 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 capitalism and communication.  We welcome the submission of articles that fit the journal’s scope. tripleC operates a news list disseminating infos about new articles, calls for papers, conferences, events, and other journal-specific information. You can subscribe here.

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
Twitter channel