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Dieses Buch analysiert den digitalen Kapitalismus. Es beleuchtet, wie Wirtschaft, Politik und Kultur der digital-kapitalistischen Gesellschaft funktionieren und interagieren. Jedes Kapitel konzentriert sich auf eine bestimmte Dimension des digitalen Kapitalismus oder eine kritische Theorie, die uns hilft, die Dynamiken des digitalen Kapitalismus zu verstehen. Zu den behandelten Themen gehören: digitaler Positivismus und administrative Big-Data-Analytik; Patriarchat, Sklaverei und Rassismus im Kontext der digitalen Arbeit; digitale Entfremdung; soziale Medien in der Wirtschaftskrise; Imperialismus und digitale Arbeit; Gewerkschaften und Klassenverhältnisse im digitalen Zeitalter; Plattformgenossenschaften; digitale Gemeingüter; öffentlich-rechtliche Internetplattformen; die digitale Arbeit von Foxconn- und Pegatron-Arbeitenden, Software-Entwickler:innen bei Google und Online-Freelancern; die politische Ökonomie von zielgerichteter Werbung auf Facebook, Google, YouTube und Instagram.

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.

"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"--

Introduction -- The Relevance of Franz L. Neumann's Critical Theory Today: Anxiety and Politics in the New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism -- Günther Anders's Critique of Ideology -- M. N. Roy's Critique of Ideology, Fascism, and Nationalism -- Martin Heidegger's Anti-Semitism: Philosophy of Technology and the Media in the Light of the Black Notebooks. Implications for the Reception of Heidegger in Media and Communication Studies -- Anti-Semitism, Anti-Marxism, and Technophobia: The Fourth Volume of Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks (1942-1948) -- Fascism 2.0: Hitler's Birthday on Twitter -- Red Scare 2.0: User-Generated Ideology in the Age of Jeremy Corbyn and Social Media. -- Racism, Nationalism and Right-Wing Extremism Online: The 2016 Austrian Presidential Election on Facebook -- A Frankfurt School Perspective on Donald Trump and His Use of Social Media -- Donald Trump and Neoliberal Fascism -- Authoritarian Capitalism, Authoritarian Movements, Authoritarian Communication 13. Why There Are Certain Parallels Between Joachim C. Fest's Hitler-Biography and Michael Wolff's Trump-Book -- How Did Donald Trump Incite a Coup Attempt? -- Boris Johnson Takes His Brexit Demagoguery to the Social Media Sphere -- Slow Media: How to Renew Debate in the Age of Digital Authoritarianism -- Conclusion: What is Digital Fascism?

"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"--

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 Humanismexplores 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 sixth volume in Christian Fuchs' Media, Communication and Society series draws on radical Humanist theory to address questions around the digital public sphere and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today. The book discusses topics such as digital democracy, the digital public sphere, digital alienation, sustainability in digital democracy, journalism and democracy, public service media, the public service Internet, and democratic communications. Fuchs argues for the creation of a public service Internet run by public serviceMedia that consists of platforms such as a public service YouTube and Club 2.0, a renewed digital democracy and digital public sphere version of the legendary debate programme formats Club 2 and After Dark. Overall, the book presents foundations and analyses of digital democracy that are interesting for both students and researchers in media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, political science, sociology, Internet research, information science, as well as related disciplines.