Critical theory of communication : new readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the age of the internet /

Show other versions (1)

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 deplo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fuchs, Christian, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Westminster Press, 2016.
Series:CDSMS (Series)
Subjects:
Lukács, György, > 1885-1971.
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969.
Marcuse, Herbert, > 1898-1979.
Honneth, Axel, > 1949-
Habermas, Jürgen.
Marcuse, Herbert, > 1898-1979
Lukács, György, > 1885-1971
Habermas, Jürgen
Adorno, Theodor W., > 1903-1969
Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Frankfurt school of sociology.
Critical theory.
Communication > Social aspects.
Sociology > Philosophy.
École de Francfort (Sociologie)
Théorie critique.
Sociologie > Philosophie.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
Communication studies.
Humanities.
Interdisciplinary studies.
Media studies.
Philosophy.
Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Sociology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
Communication > Social aspects
Critical theory
Frankfurt school of sociology
Sociology > Philosophy
marxist theory.
habermas.
social media.
digital media.
theories of communication.
frankfurt school critical theory.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Critical theory of communications: new readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the age of the internet
  • 2. Georg Lukács as a communications scholar: Cultural and digital labour in the context of Lukács' Ontology of the social being
  • 3. Theodor W. Adorno and the critical theory of knowledge
  • 4. Herbert Marcuse and social media
  • 5. The internet, social media and Axel Honneth's interpretation of Georg Lukács' theory of ratification and alienation
  • 6. Beyond Habermas: Rethinking critical theories of communication
  • 7. Conclusion.

Similar Items