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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christian FuchsPublisher: SAGE Publications Ltd Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd Edition: 4th Revised edition Weight: 0.770kg ISBN: 9781529685008ISBN 10: 1529685001 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 22 November 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsI. FOUNDATIONS 1. Social Media: A Critical Introduction 2. What are Social Media? 3. Big Data in Digital Capitalism 4. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media II. PLATFORMS 5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine? 6. Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News 7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat 8. Elon Musk’s Twitter and the Colonisation of Political Communication on Twitter: Political Economy, Digital Democracy, and the (Digital) Public Sphere 9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Digital Fascism on Social Media 10. TikTok and China’s Political Economy in Global Capitalism III. FUTURES 11. Towards Truly Social MediaReviewsFuchs 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 Author InformationChristian 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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