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1. Digital Labour and Karl Marx

   By Christian Fuchs

   How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the...

   To Be Published November 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Critique, Social Media and the Information Society

   Edited by Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand,...

   To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Internet and Surveillance

   The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

   Edited by Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of “Web 2.0”, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies

   By Christian Fuchs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Internet and Society

   Social Theory in the Information Age

   By Christian Fuchs

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge