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International Sociological Association (ISA) World Forum, Day 4: John Urry;...
John Urry gave a talk on “Sociology and Climate Change”. In my opinion this was the best plenary talk given at the conference. It was critical, clearly focused and structured, rhetorically well...
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“The world will be better if you share more“: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and...
The August 2010 issue of Wired Magazine features a story about privacy on Facebook. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quoted saying: “The concept that the world will be better if you share...
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WikiLeaks – Alternative Internet Medium and Watchdog Platform – and the...
A journal article I wrote about WikiLeaks that is based on the thoughts in the following blog post and that holds the title “WikiLeaks: power 2.0? Surveillance 2.0? Criticism 2.0? Alternative media...
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Special issue of tripleC: Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture
tripleC (cognition, communication, co-operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. Vol. 8. No. 2: Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis, Communication & Culture Edited...
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Nuclear Catastrophe, Fukushima, The Fourth World War, Immateriality,...
Ernest Mandel has described oil and nuclear energy as typical primary energy sources of the Fordist mass production/consumption capitalism that emerged after 1945 in Western capitalist countries....
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Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Facebook Mobs”, “Blackberry...
Social Media and the UK Riots: “Twitter Mobs”, “Blackberry Mobs” and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism “One formula [...] can be that of the mob: gullible, fickle, herdlike, low in taste and...
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Invited talk about “Internet Prosumption in Contemporary Capitalism” at the...
On September 9th, I gave an invited semi-plenary talk about “Internet Prosumption in Contemporary Capitalism” at the 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association (topic: “Social Relations...
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The Right-Wing European Mainstream Media Campaign against Syriza and the Need...
The Right-Wing European Mainstream Media Campaign against Syriza and the Need to End Neoliberalism I have taken a look at the European media coverage of Syriza one day before the Greek election that...
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Why Social Media Research Matters for Occupy
Why Social Media Research Matters for Occupy Christian Fuchs Published on Occupy News Network, November 28th, 2012: Link: http://occupynewsnetwork.co.uk/why-social-media-research-matters-for-occupy/
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How Ideology is Policing the Crisis of European Capitalism
How Ideology is Policing the Crisis of European Capitalism Christian Fuchs Written for the Greek magazine ΒΑΒΥΛΩΝΙΑ (Babylonia) Times of crisis are times, where ideologies tend to flourish. We can take...
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Collected volume “Critique, Social Media & the Information Society” (ed....
Collected volume “Critique, Social Media & the Information Society” (ed. Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415841856/ Marisol Sandoval and I have...
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Open Access Journals and Capitalism: An Interview with Christian Fuchs
Open Access Journals and Capitalism: An Interview with Christian Fuchs By Simon Schöpf and Dimitris Masvoulas Simon Schöpf (simon.schoepf@gmail.com) and Dimitris Masvoulas (jmasvoulas@hotmail.com) are...
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Avoiding Avoidance: How to Put an End to Google’s Circumvention of...
Avoiding Avoidance: How to Put an End to Google’s Circumvention of Corporation Tax Christian Fuchs In the UK Public Accounts Committee’s recent session on tax avoidance, Chair Margaret Hodge spoke of...
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PRISM and the Social Media-Surveillance-Industrial Complex
PRISM and the Social Media-Surveillance-Industrial Complex Christian Fuchs There are some things we already know about the USA’s PRISM surveillance programme: According to the leaked documents, the NSA...
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Shopping with Marx and Spencer
Shopping with Marx and Spencer Christian Fuchs Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) not only have in common that they were 19th century contemporaries and philosophers. They are also...
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Capitalist and Commonist Social Media
Capitalist and Commonist Social Media What’s wrong with capitalism and capitalist social media such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Weibo, etc. ? How would a commonist social media world look like? With...
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5th ICTs and Society Conference 2015: The Internet and Social Media at a...
The 5th ICTs and Society-Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory....
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