Digital democracy and the digital public sphere. Volume six : media, communication and society / Christian Fuchs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuchs, Christian, 1976- author.

Series:

Fuchs, Christian, 1976- Media, communication and society.

Media, communication and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism and culture.

Democracy.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs Media, Communication and Society series draws on Marxist humanist theory to address questions around contemporary digital socialism and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today. Based on critical theory and Marxist humanism, this book engages with dimensions and principles of digital socialist politics, the political economy of capitalist and alternative social media, public service Internet platforms, platform co-operatives, digital democracy, the utopian Internet, digital technology in a socialist post-scarcity society, the question of how to overcome the digital divide and the uneven digital and social development that rural areas face, the diamond model of open access publishing, and strategic perspectives for digital socialist politics. Drawing on dialectical philosophy and Marxist humanism, this book presents foundations and analyses of digital democracy, written in a style suitable for both students and researchers in media, culture, and communication studies, as well as related disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Democracy, communicative democracy, digital democracy

The dialectic : not just the absolute recoil, but the world's living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself : reflections on Slavoj Žižek's version of dialectical philosophy in absolute recoil : towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism

The critique of the political economy of the media and communication

Power in the age of social media

The praxis school's Marxist humanism and Mihailo Marković's theory of communication

Sustainability and community networks

Karl Marx, journalism, and democracy

Towards a critical theory of communication as renewal and update of Marxist humanism in the age of digital capitalism

Digital democracy, public service media, and the public service internet

The structural transformation of the public sphere and alienation : challenges and opportunities for the advancement of digital democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Fuchs, Christian Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

ISBN:

1-000-80149-7

1-00-333108-4

1-003-33108-4

1-000-80147-0

9781003331087

OCLC:

1347362501