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Christian Fuchs is an Austrian social scientist. From 2013 until 2022 he was Professor of Social Media and Professor of Media, Communication & Society at the University of Westminster, where he also was the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). Since 2022, he is Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University in Germany.^[1] He also known for being the editor of the open access journal tripleC: Communications, Capitalism & Critique.^[2] The journal's website offers a wide range of critical studies within the debate of capitalism and communication. This academic open access journal publishes new articles, special issues, calls for papers, reviews, reflections, information on conferences and events, and other journal specific information. Fuchs is also the co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network which is a worldwide interdisciplinary network of researchers who study how society and digital media interact.^[3] He is the editor of the Open Access Book Series "Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies" published by the open access university publishing house University of Westminster Press that he helped establish in 2015.^[4]

Fuchs has been influential in the study of modern day social media. He himself uses YouTube and Vimeo to present analyses of the Internet and society. He also uses the social media platform Twitter, where he presents ideas on society, media, culture, politics and the internet.

From 2015 until 2017, Christian Fuchs was a member European Sociological Association's executive board, where he played a key role in organizing the 2017 ESA conference in Athens.

Fuchs' fields of expertise are social theory, critical theory, critical digital and social media research, Internet & society, the political economy of media and communications, information society theory.^[5]

In his 2014 book Social Media: A Critical Introduction, Fuchs expressed criticism towards media scholar Henry Jenkins and his 2007 book Convergence Culture, in which Jenkins explores participation in culture, for having excluded factors such as power and equality in his analysis and stated that Jenkins is a "cultural reductionist".^[6]

Books (Monographs)

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Internet and Society. Social Theory in the Information Age (Routledge, 2008) ISBN 978-0203937778
Practical Civil Virtues in Cyberspace: Towards the Utopian Identity of Civitas and Multitudo (Shaker, 2009) ISBN 978-3832283414 (co-author Rainer E. Zimmermann)
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies (Routledge, 2011) ISBN 978-0415588812
Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Routledge 2014) ISBN 0745339999
Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage 2014, first edition) ISBN 978-1473966833
OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism (Zero Books, 2014) ISBN 978-1782794059
Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media (Routledge, 2015) ISBN 978-1138839311
Reading Marx in the Information Age: A Media and Communication Studies Perspective on Capital Volume 1 (Routledge 2016) ISBN 978-1138948556
Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet (University of Westminster Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1911534044
Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage 2017, second edition) ISBN 978-1473966826
The Online Advertising Tax as the Foundation of a Public Service Internet (University of Westminster Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1911534938
Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter (Pluto Press, 2018) ISBN 0745337961
Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2019) ISBN 978-0745339993
Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News (Routledge, 2020) ISBN 978-0367357665
Marxism: Karl Marx’s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies (Routledge, 2020) ISBN 978-0367418779
Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (University of Westminster Press, 2020) ISBN 978-1912656714
Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory. Media, Communication and Society Volume One (Routledge, 2021) ISBN 978-0367697129
Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Sage, 2021, third edition) ISBN 978-1529752748
Foundations of Critical Theory. Media, Communication and Society Volume Two (Routledge, 2021) ISBN 978-1032057897
Communicating COVID-19. Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times. SocietyNow Series (Emerald, 2021) ISBN 978-1801177238
Foundations of Critical Theory (Routledge, 2022) ISBN 978-1032057897
Digital Fascism (Routledge, 2022) ISBN 978-1032187600
Digital Humanism (Emerald, 2022) ISBN 978-1803824222
Digital Capitalism (Routledge, 2022) ISBN 978-1-032-11920-5
Digital Ethics (Routledge, 2023) ISBN 978-1032246161
Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere (Routledge, 2023) ISBN 978-1032362724

Edited Books and Collected Volumes

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Christian Fuchs & Klaus Unterberger, editors. 2021. The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto (London: University of Westminster Press). The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto
Christian Fuchs, ed. 2021. Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 19 (1): 1–194. Published open access: Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. (Full Issue in One PDF)
Christian Fuchs, ed. 2020. Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (1): 1–285. Published open access: Special Issue: Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism, edited by Christian Fuchs
Christian Fuchs and Lara Monticelli, eds. 2018. Karl Marx @ 200. Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16 (2): 406–741. Published open access: Marx @ 200: Debating Capitalism & Perspectives for the Future of Radical Theory (combined PDF of all articles)
David Chandler and Christian Fuchs, eds. Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data (University of Westminster Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1912656202
Jack Qiu and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2018. Ferments in the Field: The Past, Present and Future of Communication Studies (Special issue). Journal of Communication 68 (2): 219–451.
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2016. Marx and the Political Economy of the Media. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 79. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004291409 (Paperback: 2017. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, ISBN 978-1608467082).
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2016. Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 80. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004291386 (Paperback 2017. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, ISBN 978-1608467099).
Eran Fisher and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2015. Reconsidering Value and Labour in the Digital Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1349570775
Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Jernej A. Prodnik, Sebastian Sevignani and Thomas Allmer, eds. 2014. Special Issue: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work – Definitions, Dimensions and Forms. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (2): 464–801. Published open access: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorising Digital Labour and Virtual Work – Definitions, Dimensions and Forms
Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval, eds. 2014. Critique, Social Media and the Information Society. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415721080
Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2014. Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415749091
Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco, eds. 2012. Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today. tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (2): 127–632. Published open access: Available here
Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma, Anders Albrechtslund, Marisol Sandoval, eds. 2012. Internet and Surveillance. The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415633642
Fuchs, Christian and Göran Bolin, eds. 2012. Critical Theory and Political Economy of the Internet @ Nordmedia 2011. tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (1): 30–91. Published open access: Vol 10 No 1 (2012)| tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
Margit Appel, Ronald Blaschke, Christian Fuchs, Manfred Füllsack and Luise Gubitzer, eds. 2006. Grundeinkommen – In Freiheit tätig sein (Guaranteed Basic Income – Activity in Freedom). Berlin: Avinus. ISBN 3930064731
Vladimir Arshinov and Christian Fuchs, eds. 2003. Causality, Emergence, Self-Organisation. Moscow: NIA-Priroda. ISBN 5956200065
Christiane Floyd, Christian Fuchs, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, eds. 2002. Stufen zur Informationsgesellschaft. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (Steps Towards the Information Society: Festschrift for Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday). Vienna: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3631376423

Articles

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Christian Fuchs & Sebastian Sevignani, tripleC, vol. 11, no 2, 2013, p. 237–229^[7]

External links

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Official website

References

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^ "Kulturwissenschaften – Media Systems and Media Organisation (Universität Paderborn)". kw.uni-paderborn.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-18.

^ "TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society".

^ christian.fuchs. "The ICTs and Society Network". Retrieved 2023-02-18.

^ "University of Westminster Press". www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-02-18.

^ "Christian Fuchs". The Conversation. 6 January 2016. Retrieved 2019-11-28.

^ Fuchs, Christian (21 March 2017). Social media: a critical introduction (2nd ed.). Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1473966826. OCLC 951226822.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

^ "What is Digital Labour? What is Digital Work? What's their Difference? And why do these Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media?". Retrieved 12 August 2008.

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