Critical Theory and Social Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Theory and Social Media write by Thomas Allmer. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Critical Theory and Social Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context of digital and social media. The aim of this book is to study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of new media and to assess to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons, and a commons-based information society. Based on a critical theory and political economy approach, this book explores: the foundational concepts of a critical theory of media, technology, and society users’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the antagonistic character and the potentials and risks of social media whether technological and/or social changes are required in order to bring about real social media and human liberation. Critical Theory and Social Media examines both academic discourse on, and users’ responses to, new media, making it a valuable tool for international scholars and students of sociology, media and communication studies, social theory, new media, and information society studies. Its clear and interesting insights into corporate practices of the global new media sector will mean that it appeals to critical social media users around the world.
Critical Theory of Communication
Critical Theory of Communication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Theory of Communication write by Christian Fuchs. This book was released on 2016-10-10. Critical Theory of Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School's key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of this book review aspects of the works of Georg LukAcs, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Ju rgen Habermas and apply them as elements of a critical theory of communication's foundations. The approach taken starts from Georg LukAcs Ontology of Social Being, draws on the work of the Frankfurt School thinkers, and sets them into dialogue with the Cultural Materialism of Raymond Williams. Critical Theory of Communication offers a vital set of new insights on how communication operates in the age of information, digital media and social media, arguing that we need to transcend the communication theory of Habermas by establishing a dialectical and cultural-materialist critical theory of communication. "
Critical Theory and Social Media
Critical Theory and Social Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Theory and Social Media write by Thomas Allmer. This book was released on 2015-04-10. Critical Theory and Social Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context of digital and social media. The aim of this book is to study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of new media and to assess to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons, and a commons-based information society. Based on a critical theory and political economy approach, this book explores: the foundational concepts of a critical theory of media, technology, and society users’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards the antagonistic character and the potentials and risks of social media whether technological and/or social changes are required in order to bring about real social media and human liberation. Critical Theory and Social Media examines both academic discourse on, and users’ responses to, new media, making it a valuable tool for international scholars and students of sociology, media and communication studies, social theory, new media, and information society studies. Its clear and interesting insights into corporate practices of the global new media sector will mean that it appeals to critical social media users around the world.
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies write by Christian Fuchs. This book was released on 2011-03-01. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 information. Christian Fuchs shows the role classical critical theory can play for analyzing the information society and the information economy, as well as analyzing the role of the media and the information economy in economic development, the new imperialism, and the new economic crisis. The book critically discusses transformations of the Internet (‘web 2.0’), introduces the notion of alternative media as critical media, and shows the critical role media and information technology can play in contemporary society. This book provides an excellent introduction to the study of media, information technology, and information society, making it a valuable reference tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of subjects such as Media Studies, Sociology of Media, Social Theory, and New Media.
Critical Theory and the Digital
Critical Theory and the Digital - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Theory and the Digital write by David M. Berry. This book was released on 2014-01-16. Critical Theory and the Digital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume re-examines critical theory in light of the challenges raised by today's digital revolution.
