Digital Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs Media, Communication and Society series draws on radical humanist theory to address questions around the digital public sphere and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today.

Auteur

Christian Fuchs is a critical theorist of communication and society. He is Chair Professor of Media Systems and Media Organisation at Paderborn University's Department of Media Studies. He is co-editor of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. He is the author of many publications, including the books Digital Capitalism (2022), Foundations of Critical Theory (2022), Communicating COVID-19: Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times (2021), Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory (2021), Social Media: A Critical Introduction (3rd edition, 2021), Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (2020), Marxism: Karl Marx's Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural and Communication Studies (2020), Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News (2020), Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (2019), Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter (2016), Digital Labour and Karl Marx (2014), and Internet and Society (2008).