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NEW CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSALS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL
MEDIA STUDIES
Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is a new open access book
series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster
Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of
Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that
fall into the scope of the series.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday 30 January 2017 23:00 BST
by e-mail to Andrew Lockett (University of Westminster Press Manager),
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For full details and proposal guidelines see;
http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/news
CALL DETAILS
The Critical Digital and Social Media Studies Series is published by the
University of Westminster Press (http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk).
The first volume in the series - Christian Fuchs: Critical Theory of
Communication - has just been published and is available as gratis open
access book and as affordable paperback:
http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/detail/1/critical-theory-of-communication/
Example topics that the book series is interested in include: the
political economy of digital and social media; digital and informational
capitalism; digital labour; ideology critique in the age of social
media; new developments of critical theory in the age of digital and
social media; critical studies of advertising and consumer culture
online; critical social media research methods; critical digital and
social media ethics; working class struggles in the age of social media;
the relationship of class, gender and race in the context of digital and
social media; the critical analysis of the implications of big data,
cloud computing, digital positivism, the Internet of things, predictive
online analytics, the sharing economy, location- based data and mobile
media, etc.; the role of classical critical theories for studying
digital and social media; alternative social media and Internet
platforms; the public sphere in the age of digital media; the critical
study of the Internet economy; critical perspectives on digital
democracy; critical case studies of online prosumption; public service
digital and social media; commons-based digital and social media;
subjectivity, consciousness, affects, worldviews and moral values in the
age of digital and social media; digital art and culture in the context
of critical theory; environmental and ecological aspects of digital
capitalism and digital consumer culture.
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