About me
Last modified: May 3, 2013Christian Fuchs
Professor of Social Media
University of Westminster
Communication and Media Research Institute
School of Media, Arts and Design
Watford Road, Northwick Park
Middlesex HA1 3TP
UK
Tel +44 (0) 20 7911 5000-67380
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http://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/a-z/camri
Unified Theory of Information Research Group
Steinbrechergasse 15
1220 Vienna
Austria
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MA in Social Media, University of Westminster -
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I am professor of social media at the University of Westminster, editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society that specializes in publishing articles about critical studies of media & society, the information society, and critical studies of digital media/the Internet & society. We welcome the submission of articles that fit the journal’s scope.
I am chair of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 (RN18) – Sociology of Media and Communications Research that organizes an annual conference. You can become a member of ESA and RN18 here. ESA RN18 has a mailing list, to which you can subscribe here.
I am co-founder of the ICTs and Society-network, an international interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in digital media & society that has various activities. You can register for becoming a member of the network and its mailing list here.
I am Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action “Dynamics of Virtual Work” (2012-2016) that brings together scholars who study unpaid and paid forms of digital labour.
Research Interests: social theory, critical theory, critique of the political economy of media, communication, information, technology, culture; Internet & society, information society studies, media & society, ICTs & society
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