Description
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 Luk cs, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Jürgen Habermas and apply them as elements of a critical theory of communication's foundations. The approach taken starts from Georg Luk cs 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.
Author: Christian Fuchs
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Published: 10/10/2016
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781911534044
ISBN10: 1911534041
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Industries | Media & Communications
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Philosophy | Movements | Critical Theory
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