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Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Fourth Edition)

Christian Fuchs

This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice, equipping you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media's relationship with society.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
  • Publish Date: Dec 14th, 2024
  • Pages: 448
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0004
  • Dimensions: 9.61in - 6.69in - 0.91in - 1.56lb
  • EAN: 9781529685008
  • Categories: Media StudiesPopular Culture

About the Author

Fuchs, Christian: -

Christian Fuchs is Professor at the University of Westminster, where he is the Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute. His research fields are critical theory, critical media/communication studies, critical digital studies.

Fuchs is a critical theorist of communication and digital media. He is the author of many works about the roles of media, communcation, and the Internet in society.

His books include "Marxist Humanism & Communication Theory" (2021), "Communication and Captalism: A Critical Theory" (2020), "Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies"

(2020), "Nationalism on the Internet" (2020), "Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism" (2019), "Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter" (2018), "Critical Theory of Communication" (2016), "Reading Marx in the Information Age" (2016), "Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media" (2015), "OccupyMedia!"

(2014), "Digital Labour and Karl Marx" (2014), "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (2011), "Internet and Society" (2008).

@fuchschristian,

http: //fuchsc.net

Praise for this book

Fuchs continues to prove the enduring legacy of Marxist theory in a digital age, demonstrating its potential to help us understand social and technological relations and ways to foster a more just society beyond the shackles of techno-capitalist structures of power.--Dr Aliette Lambert