tripleC: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society Edited by Christian Fuchs tripleC is a peer-review open access journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. It is indexed in Scopus, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Sociological Abstracts. The 2012 volume will feature besides regular contributions the three special issues “Marx is Back – The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today” (edited by Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco), "Political Economy and Critical Theory of the Internet @ Nordmedia 2011" (edited by Christian Fuchs and Göran Bolin), “The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011” (edited by David Chapman and Magnus Ramage”). http://www.triple-c.at Table of Contents Vol. 9 (2011) Vol 9, No 2 (2011) Articles: * Privacy as Invisibility: Pervasive Surveillance and the Privatization of Peer-to-Peer Systems Francesca Musiani, 126-140 * Selling You and Your Clicks: Examining the Audience Commodification of Google Hyunjin Kang, Matthew P. McAllister, 141-153 * Can Online Forums Be Designed to Empower Local Communities? Kerill Dunne, 154-174 * Consumer Protection in Cyberspace Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., 175-189 * Neoliberalism in the Information Age, or Vice Versa? Global Citizenship, Technology, and Hegemonic Ideology Robert Neubauer, 195-230 * Communicative Informatics: An Active and Creative Audience Framework of Social Media Linda M. Gallant, Gloria M. Boone, 231-246 * Can Environmental Governance Benefit From an ICT-Social Capital Nexus in Civil Society? Subas P. Dhakal, 551-565 * Critical Surveillance Studies in the Information Society Thomas Allmer, 566-592 * Avatar: A Marxist Saga on the Far Distant Planet Yong Tang, 657-557 * From Seven Years to 360 Degrees: Primitive Accumulation, the Social Common, and the Contractual Lockdown of Recording Artists at the Threshold of Digitalization Matt Stahl, 668-688 * Social Networking and Transnational Capitalism David Kreps, 689-701 Reflections: * Two New Critical Internet Studies-Books: Marcus Breen’s “Uprising” and Eran Fisher’s “Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age” Christian Fuchs, 190-194 * Critical Media and Communication Studies Today. A Conversation Christian Fuchs, Dwayne Winseck, 247-271 Special Issue: ICTs and Society - A New Transdiscipline? Edited by Joseph E. Brenner and Celina Raffl, 593-656 (introduction + 5 contributions) Special Issue: Towards a New Science of Information Edited by Wolfgang Hofkirchner, 272-550 (introduction + 31 contributions) Vol 9, No 1 (2011) Articles * Doing Research, Doing Politics: ICT Research as a Form of Activism Juliet Webster, 1-10 * Embracing Technology and the Challenges of Complexity Alice Robbin, 11-27 * Social Media for Digital and Social Inclusion: Challenges for Information Society 2.0 Research & Policies Pieter Verdegem, 28-38 * From Financialization to Low and Non-Profit: Emerging Media Models for Freedom Nuria Almiron-Roig, 39-61 * Deconstructing Bentham’s Panopticon: The New Metaphors of Surveillance in the Web 2.0 Environment Manuela Farinosi, 62-76 * Information – is it Subjective or Objective? Andrzej Stanislaw Zaliwski, 77-92 * The Need for an Informational Systems Approach to Security José María Díaz Nafría, 93-122 Reflections * Book Review: Signs of Science - Linguistics meets Biology Robert Prinz, 123-125