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Das Buch führt in eine Vielzahl von Methoden und Themen ein, darunter die politische Ökonomie der Kommunikation im Kapitalismus, Medienkonzentration, Werbung, globale Medien und transnationale Medienkonzerne, Klassenverhältnisse und Arbeitsbedingungen in der Medien- und Kommunikationsindustrie, das Internet und digitale Medien, die Informationsgesellschaft und der digitale Kapitalismus, die Medien in der Öffentlichkeit, öffentlich-rechtliche Medien, das öffentlich-rechtliche Internet und das Medienmanagement. Das Buch kann in Studiengängen mit den Schwerpunkten Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Digitale Medien, Medienökonomie, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Management- und Organisationswissenschaft, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Volkswirtschaftslehre und Betriebswirtschaftslehre eingesetzt werden.

Our contemporary global digital society is not always a good place to live. Authoritarianism, hatred, false news, post-truth culture, the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and political polarisation are organised via the Internet. The public sphere is highly polarised. Today, many humans tend to think of other humans mainly in terms of friends and enemies. Robots and Artificial Intelligence-based automation have created new challenges for the world of work. Decades of neoliberalism have increased inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the vulnerability of humanity to viruses and health crises. Humanity and society are in a major crisis and digitalisation mediates this crisis. Digital Humanism explores how Humanism can help us to critically understand how digital technologies shape society and humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age. Fuchs introduces the approach of Digital Humanism and outlines foundations of a Radical Digital Humanism, analysing what decolonisation of academia and the study of the digital, media and communication means; what the roles are of robots, automation, and Artificial Intelligence in digital capitalism, and how the communication of death and dying has been mediated by digital technologies, capitalist necropower, and digital capitalism. In order to save humanity and society, we need Radical Digital Humanism now.

"This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and presents case studies of how fascism is communicated online. Digital Fascism presents and engages with theoretical approaches and empirical studies that allow us to understand how fascism, right-wing authoritarianism, xenophobia, and nationalism are communicated on the Internet. Divided into three parts, the book builds on theoretical foundations from key theorists such as Theodor W. Adorno, Franz L. Neumann, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Wilhelm Reich, Leo Löwenthal, Moishe Postone, Günther Anders, M.N. Roy, Henry Giroux, and Martin Heidegger. The second part draws on a range of case studies, including Nazis celebrations of Hitler's birthday on Twitter, the 'red scare 2.0' directed against Jeremy Corbyn, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and the Austrian presidential election to analyse communication online and in social media. In conclusion, Fuchs argues that slowing down the logic of the media can advance and renew debate culture in the age of digital authoritarianism, fake news, and filter bubbles. Each chapter focuses on a particular dimension of digital fascism or a critical theorist whose work helps us to illuminate how fascism and digital fascism work, making this essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication studies, sociology and politics"--

"This third volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society book series illuminates what it means to live in an age of digital capitalism, analysing its various aspects, and engaging with a variety of critical thinkers whose theories and approaches enable a critical understanding of digital capitalism for media and communication. Each chapter focuses on a particular dimension of digital capitalism or a critical theorist whose work helps us to illuminate how digital capitalism works. Subjects covered include: digital positivism, administrative big data analytics, the role and relations of patriarchy, slavery, and racism in the context of digital labour; digital alienation, the role of social media in the capitalist crisis, the relationship of imperialism and digital labour, alternatives such as trade unions and class struggles in the digital age, platform co-operatives, digital commons, and public service Internet platforms. It also considers specific examples, including the digital labour of Foxconn and Pegatron workers, software engineers at Google and online freelancers, and considers the political economy of targeted-advertising based Internet platforms such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Instagram. Digital Capitalism illuminates how digital capitalist society's economy, politics, and culture work and interact, making it essential reading for both students and researchers in media, culture and communication studies and related disciplines"--

"This second volume from the Communication and Society collection is focused on the foundations of critical theory, outlining elements of a Marxist-humanist critical theory of society. Through asking the question of what the important elements of a Marxist-humanist critical theory of society are, the book engages with and further develops elements from the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Slavoj Žižek, David Harvey, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, C.L.R. James, Adolph L. Reed jr., and Cornel West. It provides an update of concepts such as critical theory, the dialectic, class struggles, alienation, formal and real subsumption, primitive accumulation, ideology, racial capitalism, and culture. The book is a guide on how to update critical theory for readers who are interested in how to think critically from perspectives such as media and communication studies, sociology, philosophy, political economy, and political science"--

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One. Introduction -- 1.1. What is Marxist humanism? -- Hegel and dialectical philosophy -- Practices -- Praxis -- Human essence -- Alienation -- Democratic socialism, socialist democracy -- Open Marxism -- Truth -- Ideology critique -- Critical ethics -- Marx' works -- 1.2. Why do we need Marxist humanism today? -- 1.3. The structure of this book -- 1.4. Alienation -- Literature -- Chapter Two. Erich Fromm and the critical theory of communication -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Communication -- 2.2.1. Erich Fromm on communication -- 2.2.2. An update of Erich Fromm's concept of communication -- 2.3. Ideology -- 2.3.1. Erich Fromm on ideology -- 2.3.2. An update of Erich Fromm's concept of ideology -- 2.4. Technology -- 2.4.1. Erich Fromm on technology -- 2.4.2. An update of Erich Fromm's concept of technology -- 2.5. Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter Three. Revisiting the Althusser/E. P. Thompson-controversy: Towards a Marxist theory of communication -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Background -- 3.3. Louis Althusser -- 3.4. Edward P. Thompson -- 3.5. Towards a critical theory of communication -- 3.5.1. Communication in society: communication as the process of (re)producing social relations within societal relations -- 3.5.2. Class and domination -- 3.5.3. Communication as societal commoning -- 3.6. Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter Four. Raymond Williams's communicative materialism -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The materialist theory of communication -- 4.3. Communicative materialism and the "base"/ "superstructure"-problem -- 4.4. Ideology -- 4.5. Conclusion -- Literature -- Chapter Five. Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and the critical theory of communication -- 5.1. Introduction.

You will never look at social media the same way again. Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news and politics to language and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. So we have to ask critical questions about social media. We have to dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media's relationship with society. The revised and expanded Third Edition: Explores populism, racism and nationalism in a new chapter on right-wing authoritarianism.Introduces the phenomenon of social media influencers in the age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.Explains how big data is central to social media in a new chapter on big data capitalism and imperialism.Explores the growing prominence of platforms and platform capitalism.Challenges you to envision and achieve a truly social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world.Analyses fake news and misinformation in the context of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.There are winners and losers in the age of digital capitalism. This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to critically understand how we got to digital capitalism, and what we can do about it.Christian Fuchs is Professor of Media and Communication Studies and Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter One -- Introduction: Nationalism Today; 1.1 Nationalism Today; 1.2 Studying Nationalism; 1.3 This Book's Structure; Notes; PART I -- Foundations of a Marxist Theory of Nationalism; Chapter Two -- Bourgeois Theories of Nationalism; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism; 2.3 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities; 2.4 Conclusion; Note; Chapter Three -- Marx's Concept of Nationalism; 3.1 Marx's Concept of Nationalism; 3.2 Edward Said's Critique of Marx